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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...

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...

More help for farm fresh food eaters

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 5, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Last week I introduced you to two authors of new food books that celebrate the joys of preparing and eating fresh farm food in season. In that column I wrote about Andrea Reusing’s “Cooking In The Moment: A Year of Seasonal...

You Can Call Him Jones

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

A few things you may not know about the new radio Voice of the Tar Heels: His proper name is Monrovie Jones Angell, IV. That’s on par with Forest Orion Mixon, III, which is Mick’s official moniker, and a lot more eccentric than...

Misled no more! The FDA simplifies sunscreen

Posted by Staff | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized

Consumers have been confused for years about sunscreen products. I have been telling my patients for years to use a broad spectrum sunscreen, meaning a sunscreen with both UVA and UVB protection. Currently in order to make sure...

Enough Already!

Posted by Staff | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized

In 1996 I had the honor of being appointed to serve on the Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees and later was reappointed to a second term. During my tenure, I also served as the Board’s chair. In addition to our normal...

Medicaid and Medicare Myths

Posted by Staff | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized

In the face of all the budget cuts for both state and federal I thought some interesting facts and statistics would put our “state of Medicaid and Medicare” in perspective. The bill recently approved by the U.S. House of...

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