Sheila Moore of Ooltewah had her feet in the for-profit world but found herself more and more wanting to step into the nonprofit universe.

Chanting, shaking a rattling egg, running around the room yelling, rolling across the floor and, finally, resting.

Chanting, shaking a rattling egg, running around the room yelling, rolling across the floor and, finally, resting.

Health-care costs are out of control in our nation. Prescription drug costs represent the fastest-growing component of these expenditures.

Last Saturday, my friend Sandy Zitkus and I, along with my daughter Anne McLachlan, made an annual trip to Atlanta where we usually hit IKEA for our household needs and some Christmas gifts, as well as Trader Joe’s where we pick up a heft supply of Charles Shaw wine, lovingly known as Two-Buck Chuck for it’s extremely low price of $2.49 per bottle.

Many people love the flavor of pomegranates, but the fruit is perhaps the most difficult to figure out. As a result, most people simply pass them by in their raw state, electing to purchase prepared juices and other pomegranate-infused products.

I really wanted to love “Quantum of Solace.”

“No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.”

People to watch: Jeff Joyner

CASEY PHILLIPS: I really wanted to love “Quantum of Solace.” The combination of a new James Bond; Daniel Craig, a new director; Marc Forster; and a more down-to-Earth approach to the franchise made 2006’s “Casino Royale” easily my favorite Bond flick.

Nine months after receiving a heart transplant, Jeff Joyner, 31, a salesman at Siskin Steel and an avid mountain bike rider, says he is in the best shape of his life.

MARK KENNEDY: An early childhood expert once told my wife and me never to get in food fights with our children.

An Internet safety program called NetSmartz will be presented at 6 p.m. today in the Family Life Center at Middle Valley Church of God, 1703 Thrasher Pike.

Joshua Blake of Chattanooga signed up to be a bone marrow donor for the young son of two friends several years ago and wound up saving the life of a 27-year-old nearly 650 miles away.