Mia Pohlman

You’ve likely heard a lot of hype about vitamin D in the past few years, but what is it, what is its function and how can we ensure we’re getting enough? Results from many studies concerning vitamin D are mixed, and it’s a complicated topic; the bottom line is, if you’re concerned you’re not getting enough or that you’re getting too much, talk with your health care provider, who can help you create a plan for your unique life and health needs...

Work travel accounted for 19% of global travel and tourism expenditure in 2022, down only 1% from 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Statista. As the world has opened back up for travel post-pandemic, the advantages of traveling for work are many: Meeting in-person helps to build stronger relationships, strengthen communication and deepen understanding across cultures within a company. ...

Wife and husband filmmakers Shirlee Wilson and Fred Jones of Jackson co-directed their first feature-length film "Sugarhouse" in Perry and Cape Girardeau Counties in Southeast Missouri, as well as in Utah, writing the script in September 2021 and filming from June 2022 to May 2023. ...

Gabriele Ruggieri, owner of the restaurants Speck Pizza and Street Food, as well as Pasta + Sauce, in Cape Girardeau, says he is always chasing his next dream. It’s the entrepreneurial mentality to continue improving and seeking what is missing that has pulled him through playing professional soccer, working in eight countries and founding four restaurants, as well as a myriad of other pursuits he has set his mind to and achieved...

When Kelly Westbrook was 23, she was in a single-car accident that put her in a coma for 12 days. She had a shattered left hip. And she had a traumatic brain injury, which led to brain bleeds and memory issues. When she woke up from her coma, she says she she didn’t cry or communicate for a “very long time.” And she didn’t remember the previous year of her life...

Some of meteorologist Grant Dade’s earliest memories are of weather. One impactful instance stands out to him, in particular: During tornado warnings, he and his family watched supercell thunderstorms 20 miles in the distance move across the plains on the front porch of their home in Rapid City, S.D...

Eat a Frito-Lay potato chip around the Fourth of July, and the odds are high the potato was grown in Southeast Missouri. It’s part of the Fourth of July Push, the two to three weeks before Independence Day, and the Southeast Missouri region...

Cheryl Mothes, Edward Jones financial advisor, natural health nutrition counselor and co-owner of Fresh Healthy Café in Cape Girardeau, was getting ready for work one morning in 2019 when she overheard Gayle King talking about a new study linking fried foods and breast cancer in women on “CBS This Morning.”...

Cheryl Mothes, Edward Jones financial advisor, natural health nutrition counselor and co-owner of Fresh Healthy Café in Cape Girardeau, was getting ready for work one morning in 2019 when she overheard Gayle King talking about a new study linking fried foods and breast cancer in women on “CBS This M…

It’s officially summer on June 21, and we’re in a summer state of mind. With the free time and warmer weather of summer comes the opportunity to experience new ways to exercise, and our region offers a plethora of fun ways to move. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends indi…

It’s a simple story, Kari Buerck says: Her grandparents, the late Glenda and Willard Hadler, went on a trip to Nevada and saw a tree with shoes hanging from the branches. When they came home, Willard decided he wanted to create a tree like the one they’d seen for his own family. ...

One year for Lent at the youth group I helped lead during undergrad, the students put together a Stations of the Cross meditation in which each station or scene from Jesus’ Passion was set to a song. The songs they chose helped humanize and make relevant to our times what the people in each scene mi…

This story is part of an ongoing series called “Chronicles from the Care Center,” in which people who live in care centers throughout Southeast Missouri tell the stories of their lives. This is the second installment. Talk with Bernice Wyatt about her life, and there is one theme that runs through it: her faith in Jesus. She can trace Jesus’ faithfulness to her from being six months old all the way through to her present life at the Lutheran Home at 91 years of age...

What do factories and many schools have in common? Bells, specialization into separate subjects and producing batches of children based on their date of manufacture, also known as their year of graduation. These are similarities Sir Ken Robinson points out in his classic 2010 TED Talk “Changing Educ…

Every day at 4 a.m. and every day at 4 p.m., Trever Duncan goes out to milk the goats. One at a time, each goat hops up on the wooden milk stand he and his dad built, and Trever gently fastens the head gate around the goat’s neck to keep her in place while she eats from the trough on the front of th…

Julian Watkins had just graduated from law school and was working his first gig as a corporate lawyer. He was supposed to be happy because he was successful. Instead, he was in the hospital because he’d taken too many drugs. It’s a struggle that started while he was growing up in Cairo, Ill., where …

The Shipyard is back after a brief pandemic hiatus for its third year of food, fun and your favorite people in one place, raging to your old favorite bands and discovering new music to put on repeat. This year, we’re on The Grounds at Century Casino Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, with two sta…

The Shipyard is back after a brief pandemic hiatus for its third year of food, fun and your favorite people in one place, raging to your old favorite bands and discovering new music to put on repeat. This year, we’re on The Grounds at Century Casino Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, with two sta…

It was founded in the year 1296 as the new capital city of Lan Na, an Indianized state that is now part of present-day Thailand. It is known for its 117 Buddhist temples and as a site where floating lanterns are released each year during Yi Peng, to honor the Goddess of Water. It’s home to multiple …

Before he was The German Cook, Christian Voigt was a guide for a motorcycle touring company, leading groups of people across the U.S. on motorcycle adventures. Before she was The German Cook’s Wife, Crystal Voigt worked in Los Angeles at the company that rented the motorcycles to the agency Christia…