FresnoBee.com: Life

Material girls

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:39:49 PDT

When Jane Felder was a teenager, she sewed a pair of linen jumpers, one blue and the other white, for her 2-year-old cousin. She's been making clothes ever since.

Sierra scripture

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:24:01 PDT

Armed with a special digital camera and a tripod, Fresno photographer Rex Spaith Jr. regularly goes looking for God. Although God is everywhere, Spaith says, he finds God's wonderment mainly in the high country. Then, he clicks away.

Playhouse will be auctioned for Children's Hospital

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:24:01 PDT

The Kings Guild will auction a playhouse as a fundraiser for Children's Hospital Central California. The auction will be held tonight at A Black and White Affair dinner-dance 6:45 p.m.-1 a.m. at the Roy Fialho family hangar, 7414 18th Ave., Lemoore. Tickets cost $100.

TV moms

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:29:58 PDT

On this day when we honor those who changed our diapers, bandaged our knees and did all of those other mom things, we pause to salute one special group: TV moms.

SUMMER FUN

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:29:57 PDT

For kids throughout the central San Joaquin Valley, summer vacation is just around the corner. Even though most children will be out of school, there still will be lots to do.

Safety makes a big splash

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:23:40 PDT

A recent scare that could have turned tragic made Dwight Siemens and his wife, Mary, do something they had never done in the 10 years they've lived in their Clovis home.

Highs & lows

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:33:54 PDT

In Gerald Sullivan's home, there's a "significant-other cabinet" with food he shouldn't eat with abandon: Krusteaz Belgian waffle mix. Kona Coast Aloha Sweet Onion Grilling & Dipping Sauce. Powdered sugar. Bowtie pasta.

Pop's art

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:38:02 PDT

Elizabeth Laval is on a mission.

Parting shots

Mon, 05 May 2008 06:36:05 PDT

In the late 1940s, a physicist from Massachusetts invented photographic film that developed almost instantly.

About the same time in Fresno, Golden State Boulevard was the Valley's main drag, a riot of gleaming new cars, neon-lit motels, busy filling stations and restaurants. Like sales of the newfangled Polaroid cameras, business on the boulevard jumped. [VIEW VIDEO]

Chance meeting

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:02:55 PDT

Fresno State professor Dickran Kouymjian met with the exiled Dalai Lama of Tibet long before the famous spiritual leader rocketed into the news on the shouts of protestors worldwide.