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Column: Spring has sprung, and now the snakes emerge

April 16, 2021 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — Spring is the time of year for our friends in the snake world to start rising from their

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From the Editor: Baking up a storm in the pandemic; puzzling; some good math

April 11, 2021May 10, 2021 The Independent News

Ed. — From the Sunday, April 11, print edition. BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE BACK BAY — This is the sort of thing that looks wrong as the

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Arts & Entertainment Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Some good luck in a thrift shop leads to a find that is hard to repeat

March 18, 2021 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — An odd piece of crystal caught my eye while I wandered through a thrift store in Norfolk not so long

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Column: A new grandchild, a new life in the time of Covid

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — He is a mushy, squeezable, slippery, sweet-smelling new human being that smiles at me while I change his clothes. He

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Government Health & Fitness Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Learning to speak the new language of the novel coronavirus

October 27, 2020 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — I was talking to a friend on the phone recently when I realized we were speaking a new language –

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Health & Fitness Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Demonstrate our commitment to others during the coronavirus pandemic

August 19, 2020 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — When the pandemic news began to trickle in, my emotions started to play havoc with my mind, and I

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Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: A butterfly marks the flight of a child into adulthood

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 The Independent News

Ed. — This archived column ran in the Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, print edition. BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — It is the end of vacations,

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Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: In the race toward Christmas, remembering what matters

January 1, 2019 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — Christmas is back. Time flies every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I start to stress when the autumn decorations

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Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Creating something beautiful from the broken pieces

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — Recently we lost two close family friends. One was 27 years old, and the other was 87. As I

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Agriculture Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Summertime and the bounty of my grandparents’ garden

August 21, 2018 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — When we recently moved into our house in Sandbridge, we made time for dragging out some planters and getting

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