Create The Life You Want
By Deb Peterson Jessica Brown and her husband, Bill, didn’t have high hopes when their friends, Jeff Quick and Tom Kiley, suggested they look at a house for sale in Cotter. Jeff was a realtor at the time for Larry … Continued
By Kelly Householder-Giuliano Are you concerned about your breast health? Does breast cancer run in your family? Are mammograms too painful to do regularly? There’s another, relatively new, screening tool for early disease prevention and detection—thermography. It is a … Continued
By Cristy Case Keirn Back in the mid-1980’s Julia Gist found herself at a crossroads: she could continue her nursing career as a clinician, become a nursing administrator, or continue as a nursing educator. It was the advice of a … Continued
By Deb Peterson The Twin Lakes Area is home to two gorgeous, crystal clear lakes, Bull Shoals and Norfork, so when we decided to include a home in every issue of Marvelous!, it seemed appropriate that our first summer home … Continued
By Susan Varno Photographs by Susan Varno It was a first for the hospital. On May 15, Gloria Gushue married Ben Sanders in the emergency room at Baxter Regional Medical Center. They were supposed to be married in a church … Continued
By Gabriela Schaar Ford Photographs by Deb Peterson • Styled by Kelly Householder-Giuliano Like many needy teenagers, I thought I had found the love of my life—at 14. In the heat of passion, hormones awake, my sweetheart convinced me to … Continued
By Patten Traver, Peeka’s Dad A child sick with the flu is enough to make even the strongest parent weak. A child with cancer is an entirely different realm. In the spring of 2011, we drove a very sick and … Continued
By Deb Peterson If you can remember your first trips to a library—perhaps for story time in bean bag chairs, maybe struggling to choose just two or three books from what seemed like a million, or sitting on the floor … Continued
By Christy Case Keirn Even as a child growing up in Mountain Home, artist Samantha Sherry found herself obsessed with horses. Growing up around them, they began to frame her experiences… compassionately as family pets, competitively through rodeo, and academically … Continued
Plant milkweeds in your garden and help save the monarch from the endangered species list. The milkweed is the monarch caterpillar’s only food source—no milkweeds, no monarch butterflies! Information and photos By Lucinda Reynolds