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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...

No 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...

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...

How 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...

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...

A 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...

An Immigration Story-> (still) The Land of Opportunity

Posted by Staff | Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized

On my TV, news and reality shows about immigrants are about illegal’s. They cast a poor reflection on all immigrants. I must reach way back to remember the stories from my Grandma Mary Cahill Cronshey Kohn, who told me about...

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