In War and at Home, Military Families Pay High Cost
by Angel Booth
Living in post 9/11 America, war has become a constant. Today’s 8 year-old has never lived a day during peacetime. And as our nation reflected on Veteran’s Day, which this year came in the center of two wars and just six days after a horrific rampage at the Army’s Fort Hood in Texas, [...]
Enjoy the Holidays without Packing on Pounds
by Ronny Marie Tucker
Three weeks from now say goodbye 2009 and goodbye to the extra pounds packed on during those twelve months. A new year is coming and so will the new body, right? You can make weight loss possible and permanent by not being a “resolutionist”!
Resolutionists are those who stuff themselves during Thanksgiving and [...]
Hoop Dancers Create a Circle of Community
photographed by Andrew Phinney
written by Cesca Janece Waterfield
It’s a spectacle of choreography and grace; a hypnotic, hip-swaying show of collective cooperation and individual expression. At any age, it’s breathtaking.
Stacey Guard was 40 when she first saw hoop dance performers. “I’d never seen hoop dance before and I thought it was absolutely beautiful,” she remembers. She [...]
10 Success Tips for Entrepreneurs
by Jaynee Sasso
Succeeding in today’s tough economic climate may mean paving your own road to recovery rather than waiting for the efforts of others and the economic storm to pass. Today’s double-digit unemployment rates can either frighten you or motivate you to persevere despite your present challenges. This may be the perfect time to begin [...]
VCU Artists Focus on Local Food
by Cesca Janece Waterfield
An artist described as “hungry” is hard at work on an inventive response to a familiar dilemma. But for many people, hunger is not abstract inspiration: it’s an aching reality.
So a group of graphic design students from Virginia Commonwealth University created Project Winterfood, an innovative art exhibition and benefit opening Dec 2 [...]
