Heather Henderson

The World Trade Organization’s recently published forecast predicts merchandise trade volume growth of 4.4 percent this year.
The World Trade Organization is predicting a 4.4 percent increase in merchandise trade volume this year, following a significant increase of 4.7 percent in 2017, according to a recent trade growth report.
This would be well above the average of 3.0 percent yearly growth since the financial crisis, although still below the average of 4.8 percent yearly growth since 1990...

Hurricane Irma’s visit to Jacksonville caused unprecedented flooding and destruction, affecting tens of thousands of people across the First Coast. The wind ripped trees out of the ground, Riverside and San Marco nearly turned into Atlantis, and power had yet to be restored to thousands of people a week after the storm passed. For many people in our area, this was their first real hurricane experience. This was not, however, Jacksonville’s first time getting rocked by a hurricane.
The full ef...

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that giant retail chains have been threatening small businesses for ages. The more our city expands, the more big businesses move in. These days, there’s a new, even bigger potential threat in town. Online superstore Amazon has its eyes set on the 904, and it’s easy to see the appeal of clicking a few buttons and having items arrive at your doorstep in just a day … but what’s the real cost of that convenience?
With every click, you’re potentially hurting the peo...

Jennifer Chase is an artist who fully embodies the artist persona and lifestyle. She looks like you’d imagine an artist would, and expresses herself boldly, with more than the occasional wild gesture to emphasize her words. Think of her as the real life Ms. Frizzle … and I mean that in the best way.
Freedom of choice has always been one of the primary themes of her life. The freedom to choose what you want to do, who you want to be and which mistakes you want to make are all things she has op...

Despite what he says, Jared Rypkema is a starter. “I’m not really a starter,” he told me right off the bat.
He’s a Jacksonville transplant who fell in love with this city after moving here for work, but felt it was missing something. Jared is the founder of Bridge Eight, Jacksonville’s only print literary magazine. It comes out twice a year and is packed with short stories and poems submitted by writers from all over the country. Each piece is loosely linked by a central theme.
Before Bridge ...

Of all the different tastes that we experience, one stands out above the rest as the most unusual and difficult to describe. Savory, sometimes referred to as “umami” (which is Japanese for “delicious”), is the flavor that rules our taste buds. The right combination of ingredients can bring about a flavor explosion in your mouth that is somewhere between salty and meaty, but does not encapsulate one extreme. It’s hard to describe in specific terms, but you know it when you taste it. Umami is u...

If you’re like most people, you probably hate working out. It’s boring, it makes you sweaty and it requires you to turn off Netflix and wipe the Doritos crumbs off your shirt. There are, however, ways to make your workout less of an endless slog through hell and more of a tolerable (and maybe even fun) experience.
Breaking a sweat will never be as great as catching up on the latest season of your favorite show from the comfort of your own bed, but it doesn’t have to mean taking a trip to the ...