Jan 28, 2021
“COVID test?”
Sonya Frausto and I have been talking by phone for only a few minutes before she pauses to greet a customer who’s come into her store for a COVID test. She points the customer in the right direction, continues our interview and then bids him farewell a few minutes later.
Frausto is the owner of Ten Acres Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy on Freeport Boulevard that opened last August in the midst of the pandemic. The store offers free COVID tests every day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (registration required), which keeps Frausto busier than ever on top of her normal duties running what she calls a “functional health pharmacy.”
Jan 28, 2021
One of Don Wulf’s favorite thoughts is from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: The meaning and purpose of your life is to help others find theirs.
A favorite quote is from Dr. Seuss: To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
Jan 28, 2021
According to the wedding website The Knot, the average bride spends $2,000 on flowers for the nuptials—which means two grand gets dumped in the trash after the Big Day has passed. But with the help of Nikki Gray and her floral-preservation company Endless Florals, those flowers and that big investment don’t have to go to waste.
“What I’m preserving is a memory,” says Gray, who officially launched Endless Florals at 51st and O streets last May. “Yes, it’s a flower. But it represents a significant one-time event in someone’s life that they can then look at day after day.” Seeing your wedding bouquet “has a different feeling than looking at pictures—it brings you back to the moment of holding it in your hand. There’s a certain romanticism to it.”
Jan 28, 2021
Inside Pocket February 2021
Jadelle Andrews specializes in pastel landscapes and still life that are inspired by her journeys through the wilderness.
Jan 28, 2021
Inside Land Park/Grid February 2021
Barbara Legacy lives in South Land Park and has a BA in painting. Drawing and painting has always been a part of her life.
