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This section shares information, tips, stories or ideas about parenting, family life, children, outings and trips, finances, self-care, customs, stories about cultural heritage and tradition, our furry pet companions (even hairless ones), and any other aspects of our domestic experience in Asheville and Western North Carolina.




Andy OnCall Handyman Service

Our craftsmen have over 10 years experience and ANDY OnCall® provides a one year WRITTEN WARRANTY on craftsman workmanship. Always available to you, ANDY OnCall® is committed to fair and honest interaction with our customers. Priced By The Job Not By the Hour!    more...

Therapy with Marla, Co-Parenting Coaching and Counseling

Parenting after separation and divorce can be challenging. Conflicts, hostilities and differing points of view regarding how your children should be raised can leave you frustrated and angry.    more...

When A Fox Skull No Longer Points Home By Catherine Reid

It is the quiet time of year — no leaves, no insects, no nattering of squirrels, no birds asserting claims over small lands and new broods. In these woods, the snow cover is deep, and it contains and subdues most sounds, an absence that has its own weight and against which my snowshoes rattle and shirr. more

Indigo

Indigo’s last breath left her body with a gentle sigh. Her giant head sagged heavily into my hands    more...

MIRACLE on AMBOY ROAD - Wilma Dykeman RiverWay is Working

RiverLink is excited to be working with the French Broad River Garden Club Foundation to solicit input on the future uses of Karen Cragnolin Park - a 50 year old junk yard that miraculously won the Founders Fund Award from the National Council of Garden Clubs.    more...

In Defense of the French Health System: Having a Baby in Paris By Carolyn Forché

Poet Carolyn Forché’s experience suggests that universal access to health care is not only the right thing to do morally but financially as well.    more...

Truancy Prevention and Chickens, hmmm?

In The Schools

Nancy Riestenberg - Safe and Drug Free Schools


I recently conducted a site visit with a school that has a truancy prevention program.    more...

"Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town..."

A staff member of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) called to tell me that Ruby had been awarded the 2000 Trooper Award for Animal Heroism.    more...

WPVM-LP 103.5 FM The Progressive Voice of the Mountains

The Progressive Voice of the Mountains A broadcast service of the Mountain Area Information Network    more...

Wendell Berry and MAIN’s alternative media vision by Wally Bowen

MAIN’s relationship with our mountain region is “biological, not industrial,”    more...

Project Skill-UP provides funds for college and training for individuals impacted by changes in the tobacco industry

Buncombe and Madison counties have been impacted in various ways by the loss of revenue previously generated by tobacco farming. Losses include: finances for land taxes, incidental expenditures, capital improvemtne, as well as investment in additional crops...    more...

ROBIN CAPE: ACTIVISM IS HER MIDDLE NAME

Have you ever had a conversation with someone effortlessly spins through a myriad of new and great ideas? Robin shared her enthusiasm,boundless energy and wealth of information about sustainability, local community and a collaborative political process.    more...

MANNA needs donations!

MANNA FoodBank a private, not-for-profit service organization, links the food industry with 331 partner agencies. MANNA assists partner agencies with acquiring food to serve those facing hunger. Please donate Please click here to contribute.    more...

All in Good Time

I'm really a Type-A personality; you know, the kind that wants everything done yesterday, in the absolutely most efficient way. I've read the books; I know it's bad for my health. My husband and co-workers aren't too crazy about living with it either...    more...

Fostering Animals through Animal Compassion Network Saves Lives

Animal Compassion Network, Asheville, NC — Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. For an animal in need, these heroes often come dressed as Animal Compassion Network foster parents. ACN places unwanted dogs and cats in loving foster homes while they await adoption. Often times these animals come into the homes neglected and lonely and leave as perky, beautiful animal companions.    more...

More Women doing Home Repairs

The Wall Street Journal reports that home repair activity by women is up substantially in this country. It appears to be driven in part by the greater number of single women buying houses. For more information, please see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120001596712982785.html?mod=taste_primary_hs

The WNC Adoption Network

The WNC Adoption Network provides awareness, education and support to adopted persons, adoptive families and birth families through educational workshops, monthly get togethers and online resources. Contact: Mari Cochran at 828.989.4511 Email: mari@wncadoptionnetwork.org http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/NEWS01/71222124/1009

New Girl Order

Heard about the New Girl Order? It's a worldwide phenomenon. Even in a number of quite sexist societies, women are discovering that marriage may not be the best career choice! From New York to Poland to India to Japan to Korea, women are staying single into their thirties as they pursue career goals - and also as they reject many of the traditional ideas about marriage and female subservience. This SYF (Single Young Female) trend has hit many cultures completely by surprise. And it's not so easy for societies to try to reject it out of hand: the trend has spawned considerable economic buying power. For more info, see http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_new_girl_order.html

Animal Compassion Network - WNC's largest no-kill, non-profit animal welfare organization

About Animal Compassion Network ACN is the largest no-kill, non-profit animal welfare organization in Western North Carolina. It achieves its dual mission of eliminating companion animal overpopulation and finding homes for unwanted animals as a volunteer-driven foster network that is an alternative to traditional sheltering.    more...

Children First of Buncombe County

Our Mission: The mission of Children First is to improve the lives of children, youth and their families through community collaboration, advocacy and programs.


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Quotable - Alice Walker

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."

Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt

The handcraft tradition in North Carolina is a long one and includes items as diverse as dulcimers and pottery, knives and quilts. Handmade never meant that tools were not used, but that the tools ran on human power, not motor power. In the 20th century, electricity reached even the most remote mountain coves and hollows, and along with it came machinery that made crafting work easier.    more...

Things to Do in WNC

Fun things To Do List!    more...

 

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