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Volunteering has never been easier. There are plenty of opportunities to reap the benefits of volunteering for you and your community with little or no training or time commitment. You…

What does volunteering do for children? Volunteering teaches kids valuable life lessons such as empathy and social responsibility. They can learn time management and the importance of teamwork, and it…

Excluding the Bible and the works of Willliam Shakespeare, who are the world’s best-selling authors of all time?  Hint, women dominate the top ten. Coming in at number 1, The…

Women athletes are the big news right now with more than 40 of 2026 US Women Winter Olympians returning home from Milan with at least one medal in hand.  When…

Name a woman chemist. Marie Curie will always be the first name we think of.  Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1866 she studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne in…

When Dolly Parton received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2022 it was hard to list all of her efforts; she donated a million dollars to COVID research at Vanderbilt…

There’s one in every family. At every meal at home or restaurant outing, that person who will reach for the salt-shaker and start sprinkling before tasting their food. Hiring sites…

Want to reduce your risk of heart disease?  Exercise. The Mayo Clinic tells us that we all can benefit from exercise, no matter our age, size, sex or physical ability….

The centers for Disease Control have some hard, cold facts for us. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the US.  Someone will die…

It was just after breakfast on a cold February Saturday when Donald and his partner Joey retired to their living room to enjoy the fire and catch up on their…

In Curie, North Carolina, just outside Wilmington, you’ll find a highway marker that reads, ‘First battle of American Revolution fought in N.C. on Feb. 27, 1776. Was a Patriot victory.’…

Think that the first patriots of the American Revolution carried a striped flag with five-point stars on a field of blue?  No, that famous flag sewn by Betsy Ross wasn’t…