Issue 05 | September 2016
Elements For A Healthier Life Magazine was published as a digital magazine from May 2016 to the May/June 2018 issue. The program used to display the publication on the internet was used to design the layout. In converting the digital editions to .pdf format, some of the layout elements were altered and misaligned.
Publisher & Editor
Cynthia (C.K.) Kochis
Editorial Assistant
Jenn Ryan
Contributors
Natasha Botkin
Donna Genovese
Rachel Kieffer
C.K. Kochis
Tae Lynne
Peggy Nolan
Reba Linker
Jenn Ryan
Kat Tozier
Cover Photograph
Eric VanDussen
Contributing Photographers
Rachel Kieffer
C.K. Kochis
Peggy Nolan
Aubrey Ann Parker
Jenn Ryan
Kat Tozier

Making a Difference
One Piece of Art at a Time
As a young girl, I was a creative thinker and writer. My third grade teacher at Taft Primary Elementary assigned my friend Heidi and I as class storytellers. Every week we were challenged to create a new story (or add to an existing story) through words crafted with D’Nealian penmanship and our own hand-illustrations. We were given big pieces of Pepto-Bismol-Pink card stock and those fat-lead art pencils. Lucky for me, my desk was close to the pencil sharpener, as I liked my handwriting to be neat and tidy and because I didn’t really think of myself as an artist so much, there was a lot of erasing when it came to my illustrations.
At home, life itself was creative. My parents made our home…