Saturday, June 1st, 2013
Give a kid a coloring book with tracing pages inside, and you just might unleash the artist within. Alex Crookshanks was but a pre-kindergarten toddler when he received a Hot Wheels coloring book with tracing pages as every other page. Not content to simply trace the coloring page under it, Alex tore out the tracing
Monday, May 20th, 2013
From the dreams of a nine-year-old girl sewing clothes for her Barbie dolls and lingering around her grandmother’s upholstery business to a bona fide fashion designer competing with the best in the region to have her clothes...
Monday, May 20th, 2013
The real prize was indoors, but whenever Don Elson visited that Kansas farmhouse around 1957, he liked to slip out to the hillside in the back where a couple of old cars were parked. The cars were...
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Of all the countries I’ve traveled in this world, it was Egypt that made me faint. It wasn’t the sheer wonder of the pyramids that caused the weakness in my knees; it was the extreme heat, the...
Monday, January 14th, 2013
What a dull food world we would live in if not for herbs and spices. Seasonings make food interesting, tasty, palatable, appetizing, hot, savory, sweet or sour. Erma Bombeck said: “Once you get a spice in your...
Monday, January 14th, 2013
For the last two-plus years, Kevin Cupp has been turning heads in the New River Valley in his 1981 DeLorean DMC-12. “People turn and stare,” he says. “At the grocery store, folks will come up and talk...
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Aside from the first dance of the wedding couple and the bouquet and garter tosses, the cake is the main attraction of a reception. The traditional, tall wedding cake comes in all shapes and sizes and even...
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
On their wedding day, all couples are prepared to make it through the sunny days and the stormy days in their future. That is a nice sentiment in theory, but what if both of those natural elements...
Friday, December 14th, 2012
By Sophie Karatsikis | Photos by Laura’s Focus Photography It’s a true labor of love. The halls are decked; the lights are strung up on the tree with care; and Santa’s sleigh is parked on the...