By Sandi Schwartz | Contributor Imagine spending all this time and energy raising your kids, and then when you send them off to college someday, you still have to call to wake them up every morning to make sure they get to class on time. Sounds shocking, right? When I…
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. Every parent of teens knows how difficult it can be to communicate with them. Oftentimes, it seems as though they live in their own bubble reserved for only their friends. It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s much parents can do to establish open communication…
By Chef Kenny Bowers Ingredients:Yields 6 to 10 servings 12 ounces (3/4 of a loaf) white bread 3 cups whole milk salt, iodized, to taste black pepper, table grind, to taste 1 cup parmesan cheese 1 ounce basil, fresh, chopped 3/8” no stem 2 1/2 pounds ground beef 1 1/2…
In this episode, we visit with Dr. Shanna Garza the Clinic Director of Girls to Women and Young Men’s Health and Wellness, an Adolescent Medicine practice in McKinney, Texas. Dr. Garza received her B.S. in Biology from Emory University and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. Following her…
Shop Texas Electricity announced their 2021 Scholarship Award Program applications are open for high school students seeking to pursue a higher education program. The scholarship will award $1000 to two deserving current high school seniors planning to attend an accredited college degree program in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)…
By Sandi Schwartz Although we are currently hearing a great deal about the opioid crisis in America, teen drug use is actually declining overall. A new study called Monitoring the Future by the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicates that teens are using fewer illicit drugs (other than marijuana) than…
By Becky Mayad | Contributor In his final year of service to the City of Plano, Mayor Harry LaRosiliere took a fond look back at the first seven years of the Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program (PMSIP) as he announced plans for the 2021 program. Recruitment for businesses to sign up is underway…
By Cheryl Maguire When Lisa, age 57, first noticed that her mother seemed confused, she assumed it was typical behavior from an 80-year-old. She continued to take it in stride when her mother tried to make a phone call using the TV remote. Lisa became somewhat concerned when her mother started…
By Sandi Schwartz | Contributor I recently returned from an amazing trip to Alaska. That part of the country is so special, and nothing like I have ever seen before. It is truly a different culture and way of life out there with small towns, minimal materialism, living off the…