The Power of Rice
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...
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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...
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 MoreFiction 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...
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...
Read MoreShort 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...
Read MoreA Quiet and Prudent Holiday Sky
Posted by Staff | Jul 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
While I do consider myself a Savvy Spender, no one who knows me would dispute that I have no problem spending money on fun. Trips, parties, plays, shoes: all good reasons to open my wallet. However I have to give props for...
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