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My $avvy Son
Posted by Staff | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week the next generation of Savvy Spenders was born. He’s not a newborn, but a 9 year old. The camp my son is attending this week offers the option of taking campers to a nearby grocery store to buy lunch. While he was...
Read MoreIn Memory of My Friend’s Mother
Posted by Staff | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
How to Help Your Child, At Any Age, Comfort Someone? Yesterday I picked some Queen Anne’s Laces alongside the road for a friend whose dying mother believes her bed sheets are made of lace. “They are so soft, so beautiful,” she...
Read MoreThe Power of Rice
Posted by Staff | Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Rice — and An Opportunity for Your Child to Volunteer Did you know that one cup of rice can relieve hunger? Get your kids to take a bag or two of rice to the local food pantry based in Carrboro. It’s located at the...
Read MoreGive a Compliment, Throw a Party and Propose – That is How you Get a Job.
Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Give 10 compliments a day. It may surprise you to learn that even in our worst economics times there are millions of people who would like the opportunity to live and work in the United States. To them this is still a land of...
Read MoreNo Boom, No Rose!
Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of the wonderful things that the Internet allows you to do is to keep up with the news from home while you are traveling. While we were away, I read in the Chapel Hill News that they gave the Town of Chapel Hill...
Read MoreWhat Animal Does Your Child Want to Be?
Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Beetles. I’m guessing beetles. My four-year-old gets them and I get the goose bumps if I don’t get to her first. She’s like a mad scientist, with her swim goggles, messy hair, flipping over rocks in her search for beetles....
Read MoreMeet Me at The Aloft Hotel
Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve left you waiting long enough. I recently wrote about parking and then led you on by promising more. If you have no intention of meeting any time soon, no need to keep reading. But if you do, I can tell you that you...
Read MoreHow to Better Photograph Your Family- Tip Three
Posted by Staff | Jul 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
TIP 3: GET UP. GET DOWN. GET MOVING! When you photograph your family without being intentional about it, most of your photos are taken from the same eye level. While some photos are great taken from that level, if all are taken...
Read MoreCommunity Potluck at Johnny's!
Posted by Staff | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Like many readers in Chapelboro, I relocated here from NYC in the not too distant past. When visitors from the Big Apple make the effort to visit me during the summer months to escape the city, I make the effort to show them the...
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