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For the past year, Hollister's St. Luke's Episcopal Church (720

In our previous column entitled “Color Trends for Your Home” we introduced you to the High Point Market in North Carolina - the largest home furnishings trade show in the world - and brought you up to speed with color trend predictions  as revealed at this year's spring show. Today's column tells the second half of that story - design trends for your home - and is meant to inspire our South Valley friends who are looking for that special something to update their home decor.

If you listen to the buzz about the latest technologies, you may think laptops have gone the way of the stegosaurus. But, the truth is, many of us are still using them. This may be a problem from an ergonomics perspective. The big difficulty with laptops (AKA: notebook computers or netbooks) is the keyboard and monitor are attached to one another. This creates an impossible situation. If you place the screen at a comfortable level for viewing, the keyboard and pointing device will be much too high for keying and pointing, and vice-versa. Something's gotta give! And usually it's your neck, back, arms, hands or all of the above.

Our neighbor's dog, Wolfie, will eat anything. Last week, he was

As all readers know, the world has been full of challenges the

Last year, on the same day that Californians narrowly approved

I've been surprised a lot lately by odd little events.