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Can You See Her, A Little Girl?

Posted by Staff | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized

Has Your Child Ever Seen Animals in the Sky? It seems to me we’ve been seeing a lot of clouds these past few weeks — and one thing I love doing with the kids is to look for animals or whatever we think we can see in the...

Alzheimer's Disease-What do we really know?

Posted by Staff | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized

Alzheimer’s Walk NC on October 1st at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary! This week I was presented with an interesting project to work on with a colleague of mines in our assisted and skilled living area supporting the...

Davis Should Go — Now

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized

UNC can still begin moving beyond its regrettable football scandal of the last year, regardless of its final fate from the NCAA. Ohio State has conveniently provided Carolina with the model it should use in order to separate a...

Summer Fashion Trends in Full Force…

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Jul 18, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

It’s hot out there! So cool off at the mall and take advantage of the sales that have started and will continue into August at area retailers. Here are five summer fashion trends in full force. Feathers – Fashion pays...

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....

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...

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