Summer Reads
Can Hormone Replacement Therapy Boost Immune Function in the Face of COVID-19?
We are all scrambling during this pandemic, trying to figure out how to keep ourselves healthy under the threat of...
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The Honey Chile’ Sistergirl Playlist for Getting Your Life Together
This is one of those stories that should start with “OMG, so I was …” I was in the shower...
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Change Leads to No Change
Buddy, can you spare a dime? Can you find a nickel in the couch cushions? Did you just roll up...
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What’s Next?
What’s next has many answers, but they fall into two categories: the areas beyond our control, and those that we...
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Greatest Generation – First Person Account | Into the Water
This is Part Two of a first person account of the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), a “baby...
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Back to Grassroots: Are You Ready to Help #ConnectAiken Through Arts + Music?
Are you ready for a whole season of music in Aiken? This Fall, neighborhoods, lifestyle and advocacy groups, dreamers and...
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Be The Change
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are found in the world of our...
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Bella Book Host: Changing Ways We Consume Literature
As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Audible. As a mom of two dancers, I spend...
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Let Them Eat Avocado Toast
As we all know, adults ages 23 – 39 years old are the ruin of all things. Somehow the millennials are destroying the economy by not buying napkins, diamonds, sugary cereals, and luxury goods, and by not eating at chain restaurants. What villains for not purchasing these obviously key and necessary products! Then in that same paint stroke they are good-for-nothing layabouts, stuck and unable to purchase homes or build savings. According to Tim Gurner, the problem is Avocado Toast. “When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each.” The Australian multimillionaire truly believes that $23 is
A National Tradition | Soaring Turkeys | WHAT IF ONE OF OUR FOREFATHERS HAD GOTTEN HIS WAY?
It took an act of Congress and six years to make the bald eagle our national bird. In a letter to his daughter in 1784, Benjamin Franklin complaint was not that it took so long to accomplish this feat (some things about Congress haven’t changed much), but that the turkey was a more deserving creature to earn that honor. “For in Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade
The Story of …You Shall Know Me By My Earrings
I wore my mother’s earrings to a party not long ago. They are clip-on earrings – heavy with twisted gold chain, fabricated pearls, and memories. Halfway through the evening, I found myself slipping these pieces of vintage jewelry off for a moment and rubbing my earlobes. They always pinch and keep me terribly aware of their presence. And I suspect that this was not unlike much of being a woman in the 1950s, when these earrings were made and first worn. A time when women were terribly aware of their womanhood and its attendant discomforts – from fashions to societal expectations and restraints. I wondered if the weight of it
