What’s inside
5
Venus Leisure
Spring into
Reading
Your guide to Minnesota authors
Green is the
New Pink
Honor the hosta
7 10
Personalize
Your Party
Favors to make you the hostess with the mostess
Fresh Spring
Mocktails
Sweet treats for steamy days
Venus Love
Expert
Angle:
Dating for baby
14 44
boomers
Author Linda K. Miller makes the case to search for love online
4
Venus Style
Gems and
Jewels
Because sometimes a woman needs diamonds and more
Posh Purse!
Tips for the handiest of handbags
4
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Cover Features
Sisterhood
and Survival
Sisters survive cancer and spread the word
Outsmart an
Attacker
Advice from self-defense experts
Baby Soft
Skin
In your 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s+
More Than
Heart
Austin hubby gives wife heart, and kidney too
Girlfriend
Getaways
So much more than bar-hopping
So Minn Scene Recipe Corner Final Word
Farmer’s Market flavor From Alexandra Kloster
Venus Women
31
From Beads to Baubles
Meet jewelry designer and Mankato mom Meigan Westermann
She’s Got
the Touch
LaVonne Trotter brings peace through massage therapy, alternative healing
36
In Every Issue
Sons of Norway Sweetheart Dance
8
15 20 28
34 41
43 48
One little
black dress
Reinvented 8 ways
24
Dawn Purdie Sorenson of Owatonna models a classic that should be a staple in every woman’s closet.
Cover photograph by Eric Johnson
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