It’s winter break! The kids are home (or still home), and the family is seeking some safe holiday cheer. The Dallas Metroplex offers some exciting places to go and so much to explore. Here are some of our favorite ideas to get you and yours out of the house! –…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | Editor-in-Chief The Little Red Kitchen Bake Shop has been a Brooklyn staple since 2014, when native New Yorker Susan Palmer brought her love of baking (and her two straight wins at the Brooklyn Cookie Takedown) to a hungry public throughout New York City. She now…
By Jamie Spence | Contributor Kathleen and Ted* hired a contractor they found via Facebook to do some remodeling work on their home. They saw some recommendation comments, a few photos of prior work, and that they had a few mutual friends. Feeling pretty secure about moving forward, they signed…
Editor’s Foreword: As a child, Aubrey spent several Thanksgivings at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. This year, 15 years after the innovative kidney and heart transplant that saved her life, she is spending it at home with loved ones. This ground-breaking surgery took 12 hours and successfully gave Aubrey a new…
By Dr. Lise Deguire | Contributor As we officially enter into the holiday season, anxiety hangs in the air, with so many worries. There is the obvious anxiety about our health and the health of our loved ones. Can we drive to see our aging parents? Can our adult children…
By Alice Ann Holland, Ph.D., ABPP | Contributor The internet and digital technology have made our world more connected than ever before, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have developed a new appreciation for how important that technology is. Online school, virtual meetings, and easy access to news updates have…
By Alicia Wanek Winemaking is an industry which is still very male-dominated. According to Woman Owned Wineries, a nationwide directory of female wine entrepreneurs, of the 4800 wineries in California only 19 percent of the wineries are owned or co-owned by women and only 10 percent of head winemakers are women. But…
By Erica Rood, M.A. Ed. | Contributor If ever there was a year when teens and tweens faced new and unusual life experiences, 2020 is the one. Between a sudden lockdown, social distancing requirements, and distance or hybrid learning, they have been required to adjust and adjust again. Change isn’t…