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How to Have the Best Looking Resume Around

Posted by Staff | Jul 17, 2011 | Uncategorized

Resumes are worth less than a dime a dozen in today’s job market. In fact they are free for taking. Despite the fact that you are 70 to 80 times more likely to get a job lead from networking than you are from sending your resume...

In 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...

The 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...

Give 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...

What 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....

Meet 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...

Fiction tells the truth about North Carolina’s changing rural landscape

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 12, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We have changed. More urban. Less rural and farming. At least that is what the latest Census is telling us. But the story is more complicated. It is more interesting, too. Out in the formerly all-rural counties of our state, new...

Community 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...

Short and Simple Skin Care Tips for Men

Posted by Staff | Jul 8, 2011 | Uncategorized

Think skin care is only important to women? Not in today’s world. More men are discovering the benefits of good skincare, but I have found that most men do not want to spend much time nor a lot of steps applying products. Men...

Zumba…OMG!

Posted by Staff | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized

Am I the last person in the Triangle to participate in “The Original Fitness-Party” better know as Zumba? I actually took my first Zumba class two weeks ago and loved it. In my class there was a mix of ages from 20...

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