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If you have never tried to make a cup from scratch, now is the time.  Homemade hot chocolate is more creamy, luscious and rich than any dried mix.

There are many benefits to running. Studies show that running 5 to 10 minutes each day may help reduce your risk of death from heart attacks, strokes, and other common diseases. 

Shelby County now has an official waitlist to call upon in an effort to keep extra vaccine doses from going to waste. People can sign up through a new online system called "VaxQueue." 

As is the case across the country, locally more people want a vaccine than is currently available. But sometimes there are additional doses on hand at the end of the day because of missed appointments or an unexpected allotment from the state. 

Lakeland resident Richard DeFreese has had asthma since childhood. Later in life, he also developed a chronic lung disease commonly known as COPD.

“I can’t run 30 feet. If I do, I’m bent over sucking in air,” says the 75-year-old retiree. “So that’s what it does, it just incapacitates your lungs.” 

That’s why he worried so much about catching the coronavirus. But, despite taking advisable precautions, DeFreese and his wife contracted the virus earlier this month. 

“Spotlight on Lifelong Learning” with Laura Loth, is a weekly look at some of the exciting public conversations upcoming around Memphis. Laura Loth is a professor at Rhodes College.