[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] 20 Years of Art-o-mat: From Cigarettes to Creations of Art The town Of Winston-Salem was built on tobacco. A lot of people made a good living (some of them a really great living) from working at RJReynolds but that was when smoking wasn’t a socially punishable crime. Back in the…
A note from Kristen: I had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of the now insanely popular Netflix show, 13 Reasons Why and while I found it to be a great show with a lot of talking points for parents to have with their teens, the show has not been without criticism. Some parents feel that it sensationalizes suicide, while…
I’m not here to argue the politics of religion (or dancing for that matter) but more the phrases people use this time of year. The topic always pops up in December.. do you say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas”? If you don’t celebrate Christmas, does it really offend you if someone doesn’t use “Happy Holidays”? In my 30+ years (I’m…
I will never forget the first time my mom won her first “big” prize. And by big, I mean it wasn’t being the 10th caller for a pair of tickets to Olympic History on Ice. I was living in Chicago at the time, tending bar at K’s Dugout which was nothing more than a Cop-Shop – a bar located across…
It’s National Blog Posting Month!! It’s November 1st. Most of us are sitting here in a sugar-crashed coma from either too much candy or too much booze from last night’s festivities of Halloween. If you live in NC, you’re lucky and thanks to the rainy, cold front that’s crept in last night, you’ll be able to use that as an…
Who else says “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” before anything else on the 1st day of the month??
This post originally ran almost two years ago and I still feel as strongly about how retailers are running a “sexualization” campaign with our teens. If you need proof, just look at the fact that Facebook “eased” the restrictions for the 13-17 year old crowd. They say they did it to give them “more independence” yet, you and I know…
…Is usually their parents. One of the things that I noticed pretty quickly when we moved back down here 7 years ago is that in the South, people tend to live by the rule of “do as I say, not as I do” – especially when it comes to RSVPs. I have been bitten on more than one occasion by…
Watching three girls go from womb to now, I have had the privilege of learning/realizing that yes indeed, some things do just come to us girls naturally. It’s like a code of honor that Mother Nature plants in their heads while they’re being created.
I’m pretty blessed in the fact that I have never suffered from PMS. Ever. Until about 3 years ago. Then, seemingly overnight I became a wicked, nasty person at least once a month. How is it that I managed to escape my entire life without suffering from PMS and then KABAM! out of nowhere not only do I have PMS…