A digital clock on the wall in a Main Street garage blinks down the final seconds of Kristin Bell's lunch break.

Q: Do I need to be concerned about getting enough vitamin D?

I love the feedback I've received from readers since I started this weight-loss column for The Shape We're In series.

One sad headline follows another: murders at Fort Hood, Texas; faculty shootings at the University of Alabama at Huntsville; a deliberate crash of a private airplane into an office building in Austin, Texas.

Despite all that's changed culturally in the past 30 years, the one constant in teens' lives is high school.

A vidgraphic explains when to set clocks forward for the start of Daylight Saving Time and gives some history on the practice.

You wake up in the middle of the night with hunger pains ricocheting through your stomach. Your first thought is bread and peanut butter waiting in your kitchen. But you've always heard that snacking at night is one of the worst things you can do if you're trying to stay in shape.

* Where: Hillbilly Willy's Bar-B-Q, 115 Brown's Ferry Road.

Q: I've been hearing a lot about vitamin D deficiencies lately. How would I know if I have a deficiency, and what can I do about it?

Today's requests are full of flavor ... Linda Graydon of Chickamauga, Ga., would love to have the old Vine Street Market's chocolate mousse. Then, a certain Paula is hot on the trail of more instructions about hot spaghetti. To freeze a spaghetti dish, should it be baked or unbaked? Finally, Marsha Fetherolf wants any Mount Vernon Restaurant recipes but particularly asparagus soufflé and mint tea, which she believes is no longer served at the Broad Street eatery.

CASEY PHILLIPS: When director Tim Burton released his 2005 reimagining of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring Johnny Depp, some thought it deviated too much from Roald Dahl's novel, while others felt it was a brilliant, if demented, revision. Substitute "Alice in Wonderland" and Lewis Carroll where appropriate, and you'll have a decent idea how Burton's latest project will be received.

"Find a need and fill it."

Target just announced on their Web site that it’s eliminated all farmed salmon from its shelves nationwide. In its place, all salmon sold by Target brands will be wild-caught Alaskan salmon. Well, it’s a shame that we don’t have a Super Target in our area selling wild salmon. But you can get it at most every grocery store in town. Just watch the labels.