Christmas is coming, and everybody’s excited! They’re out buying decorations, gift bags, food, wrapping paper, Santa Claus apparel, and arguably the most important part... presents! The list goes on and on, right? Buying all these things can be fun and rewarding at first, but doing so can also harm the environment, sometimes in ways we can’t even see.

TNR, which stands for Trap-Neuter-Return, is good for cats. TNR keeps the feral cat population at a minimum. Feral cats are cats that rarely have human interaction. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, around 60 to 100 million feral cats live in the U.S. My family and I have done a lot of TNR on many different cats that are thriving today.

Have you ever experienced history being retold, but with a little twist? Well, meet Matthew Windham. Windham is the writer and main actor for the play “Simply Silly Shakespeare.”

Windham is from Flagstaff, Arizona, and went to college at the University of Utah. At a young age he was signed up for theater. He was interested in theater and the art of writing. He loved writing and sci-fi growing up. Later on, Windham came up with an idea to bring theater to younger audiences.