Oh Man: Mike LaLonde: Picture Perfect Volunteer

Oh Man: Mike LaLonde: Picture Perfect Volunteer

by Jody Kerzman  | Submitted Photos Mike LaLonde is a regular at Bismarck’s Dakota Zoo. It’s where he finds his favorite subjects of his photographs. “I’m not much of a people photographer. I prefer taking photos of wildlife,” says Mike. “The animals have...
Give Your Meal a Makeover

Give Your Meal a Makeover

Article and Photos by Pam Vukelic If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times: the trite saying “the eyes eat first.” But researchers are discovering there is a lot of truth to it. In fact, the appearance of your food—the first impression you...

Trending: Less is More Makeup

[supsystic-gallery id=139] By Michelle Farnsworth  | Submitted Photos It can be exhausting to keep up with all the latest makeup trends, techniques, colors, and do’s and don’ts. When I started my own makeup and skincare business, I went from thinking my makeup looked...

Beauty Defined: What do the Books Tell Us?

By Betty Mills Now around my easy chair is a scattering of books of quotations in which I sought a nifty description of “beauty,” only to find many of them range from incomprehensible to nearly unprintable (at least in implication), and a few of them shivered any part...
Beauty Deeper Than Skin

Beauty Deeper Than Skin

by Jody Kerzman  | Photography: Photos by Jacy When Karen Rychlik gave birth to her daughter Tessa in 1982, she had a feeling that her baby was different. “I remember asking the doctor if she was albino,” recalls the Mandan, North Dakota mother. “But the doctor told...