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Be Loved

We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community,...

Stones of the Heart

They’re called worry stones. Soothing stones… palm stones… thumb stones. Smoothed and shaped by moving water, the Greeks chose such stones from the sea. In Tibet, they were claimed from...

Pure Love | Valentine’s Day 365

My aha moment came on Valentine’s Day 2017. I was on the heels of my divorce being finalized, and in an OK relationship, but nothing to write a romance novel...

Knights of the Heart Table | Aiken’s 2020 Heart Show

It all started with a fashion show. A fashion show and a dream of lowering the risk of heart disease for all Americans. After losing her mother to heart disease,...

Purposeful Wellness | Live Life Fully, Today!

“If you could wake up tomorrow morning and set out on a course to do anything in the world you want, knowing that everything you need to accomplish it was...

Breast Health | Hope

Dr. Jill Buchanan Enter, of Aiken Physician’s Alliance, is a general surgeon with a special interest in helping women maintain good breast health. “It’s the beginning of a new year,...

Balanced

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet,...

A 2020 Serving of Sweet Tea Wisdom and Southern Fried Humor

As we enter into a new year, I thought I would share two of my favorite stories. Start your 2020 with some humor coupled with a bit of wisdom —...

Simple Wellness Resolutions

Have you ever wondered how your friend who is very ill can be so happy? Or how your friend who has everything going for him or her can always feel...

A Wellness Movement | Life Balance in the New Year

The Christmas Tree is out of the house, the holiday lights packed away, the garland removed, and the last Christmas cookie has fallen victim to a spontaneous snacker. As resolutions...

Remnants of a Life at the Side of the Road

I saw the thin black ties of the apron first. They were draped rather languidly along the edge of the road. The apron itself was nearly hidden in a grassy...

Christmas Parades | What A Ride

As Miss South Carolina, I had a blast riding in Christmas Parades! I became a skilled candy thrower and I had perfected my beauty queen wave. But I learned more...

Traditions | A Gift for the Entire Family

Everyone wants his or her holiday experience to be a happy one. The reality is, however, that there are a lot of reasons this is a very stressful time of...

At Home

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for...

One Hundred and Five Christmases

Once upon a time, Christmas sparkled. It glittered like new snow and winter stars. It whispered with secrets, and sang out with joy to the world, and smelled of pinecones...

Thanksgiving All Year Long

This year instead of simply celebrating a Day of Thanksgiving, consider living a life of thanksgiving. Research shows that those who live a thankful life every day enjoy powerful and...

A Path to Tradition | A Sunday Drive to Remember

First day of September, a month which is usually favorable to me, and I have my first ever carriage driving accident. I’ve been driving this horse for nine years now,...

Sitting at “The KID Table” | Do You Miss it Too?

It is a Jenkins Family tradition. Practically every holiday we would journey to my grandparent’s home on Johns Island for the family get-together. My immediate family had only a short...

Be Grateful

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard Our tribe,...

Speaking with Authentic Voices

Like the old “Change Your Voice” book itself, I sometimes feel woefully worn and dog-eared and torn around the edges. But, perhaps like the book, I have old truths that...

Be Creative

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that...

Color Your Way to Better Brain Health

“...for the practice of the hand doth speedily instruct the mind, and strongly confirms the memory beyond anything else.” Henry Peachman, author, Complete Gentleman, 1634 As early as the 17th...

Living Like Dandelions

If childhood had a flower all its own, I think it would be the dandelion. From the first time we’re plopped down onto a blanket on the lawn one happy...

My Priceless Gullah Heritage

It thrilled me to learn that Sunn m’Cheaux, an instructor of the African Language at Harvard University, is teaching the origin of his native tongue, Gullah. Since I was reared...

The Breast/Best Pearls | Excerpt from Bury Me with My Pearls, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas

Author’s note: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so I thought I would share a funny story told to me at one of my speaking engagements. This one is a...

Tending the Creative Fire

With great delight, The Aiken Center for the Arts announces the privilege of hosting Taos, New Mexico artist Jan Haller, who will teach a five-day process painting workshop, “Brushes on...

Back to Bella

Partnerships are sometimes like marriages – some make it; some don’t. Over the summer my business partnership split up, and I am happily publishing Bella on my own now. Getting...

The Story of…Looking Back…Living Forward

I remember dog Sophie was full-grown but still quite young at the time. Sophie was of mixed heritage, carrying the genes of some sort of shepherding breed, which created and...

Momma and Tootsie by Jane Jenkins Herlong

Momma and Tootsie Excerpt from Bury Me with My Pearls Jane Jenkins Herlong Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas I hope you like to laugh. One of my favorite things to...

The Mindful Dog

The Story of ... The mindful dog. by Marti Healy Quincy the dog takes walks. I go along with him, but only as equipment manager. I handle the baggage. ...