It was one of those gloriously bright, extremely windy and slightly brisk days that feels like Fall up north, and feels rare and magical in Southwest Florida. As we hustled to the boardwalk leading to the beach, long strands of my curly hair got stuck in my lip gloss, which felt simultaneously annoying and glamorous. I’d had my hair cropped short since 2001, and only grew it out due to COVID; at first, because I wasn’t comfortable going into a salon, and then, to see how far I could go with it. I now have a love-hate relationship with it — lightweight but curly and apt to tangle, a product of the Italian roots I only recently learned existed, and possibly the 3% Afro-Caribbean ancestry, according to one DNA test. I was wearing sunblock on my face, because my fair skin is apt to burn when it’s been shielded from sun exposure chronically, as it has these last two years. My husband never wears sunblock, relying on his ample supply of natural melanin to protect him, passed down from his Nigerian, Cameroonian and Kenyan ancestors

Cutting just a few calories offers big health benefitsImage: PexelsAfter a weeks-long camping trip through remote desert and mountain areas across the West, I had to tighten my belt a full notch. Literally. I’m in reasonably good shape and, at 5–11, I consistently weigh around 151 pounds, so I was surprised when I stepped on the scales back home and found I’d dropped 10 pounds.Here’s the kicker: ` I felt great.I was in a good mood and my body felt trim and capable of doing just about anything except holding up my pants. And there’s only one explanation: I ate less out there

For JavaScript and TypeScript developers, Fresh is a ` Deno-based web framework that facilitates the construction of high-quality, efficient, and customized web apps. You can use it to make whatever you think of, including your home page, a blog, or a sizable web application. In essence, ` Fresh ` combines a routing architecture and a templating engine to produce pages on the server as needed. For maximum interactivity, Fresh offers an interface for seamlessly rendering some components on the client in addition to this just-in-time rendering on the server. For rendering and templating on both the server and the client, the framework employs ` Preact ` (a lightweight ` React ` alternative) as a templating engine and JSX.Advantages of FreshHard-to-miss features are packed with Fresh and readily usable for creating web applications right out of the box