Credit: Sean Metcalf | Rev. Diane Sullivan

It’s still January, and we haven’t yet forgotten New Year’s resolutions to eat less, exercise more, etc. At least no one’s bringing holiday cookies to the office anymore. In this issue we meet a “hot yoga” competitor and get a grip at newly popular climbing gyms. A reporter who has MS shares her highs and lows with medical marijuana. Recovering addicts find that writing can soothe the soul, while a Morrisville surgeon uses 3D technology to build better knees. One food writer explores the lore and science behind probiotics; another toughs out a (tongue-in-cheek) taco “cleanse.” Someone had to do it. To your health, people!


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Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...