Lifestyles

"Go forth and write, write!" teacher and project director Ocean Jones called after a departing student at the Valley Voices Writers Club meeting on a recent Wednesday afternoon.

Fashionistas shivered visibly on Sunday in a makeshift event space along the blustery Hudson River, where the Edun fashion label, founded by U2's Bono and wife Ali Hewson, was displaying its Fall 2012 collection. But the models wore bright, African prints that made one feel, at least momentarily, in a much warmer clime.

Q: We bought our standard poodle from a well-known breeder of these dogs who shows hers in Westminster each year. Of course, every year our family -- and the dog -- watch the finals of the show on TV. It is exciting to watch the live judging of the dogs. What we cannot quite understand is how the judges compare the different breeds and then decide what dog is the winner. It does not quite seem fair to judge two different breeds together in some of these cases, as certain breeds seem more difficult to keep in show condition than others.

The voice floats confidently but quietly in the first few lines of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You," the song for which the superstar vocalist, who died Saturday of unknown causes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,will always be remembered.