Bloom Archives
Category: Home & Family
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Pet of the Month Contest
Thank you for your participation! Our Pet of the Month Contest is now over. You know your pet is the best pet on earth…
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Can You Ever Have Too Many Antlers?
BY MOYA ANDREWS Antlers are Betty Rose Nagle’s passion. The retired professor of classical studies at Indiana University has hundreds of antlered objects in…
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In Bloom: How to Take Care of Holiday Flowers
BY MOYA ANDREWS The cut-flower trade is now a multi-billion dollar industry with a significant peak in sales during the holiday season. Most of…
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Growing Up Without Christmas
Bloom editor and publisher Malcolm Abrams tells a poignant and very funny story about growing up Jewish during the holiday season in Canada. Recorded at the Krista…
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Margaret Weymouth Jackson: The Sage of Spencer, Indiana
BY NANCY R. HILLER From the front porch of her house perched partway up Rocky Hill, Margaret Weymouth Jackson had a bird’s-eye view across…
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Mad 4 My Dog: Fun Training for Fido
BY ROSIE PIGA PIZZO Madalyn Moorman walks from student to student, looking to sniff out whether each understands the concept of “Off.” “This is…
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Power of Words 2013 Stars Novelist Nicole Mones
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Author Nicole Mones has won accolades for her ability to interweave the exotic with the romantic in novels crafted with expertise…
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B-town Animal Shelter Has New Kitten Nursery
BY CELIA GRUNDMAN When the Bloomington Animal Shelter completed its kitten nursery in May, staff members quickly realized they would have to take down…
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Scaly Tailz: Meeting Nature ‘Up Close and Slithery!’
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC “Look, Mom, there’s the lizard lady!” That’s what Sheryl Mitchell sometimes hears when spotted by kids who’ve seen one of her…