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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.
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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...
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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.
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 When A Fox Skull No Longer Points Home
By Catherine Reid
Sheville Staff
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
Maureen MacNamara
Indigo’s last breath left her body with a gentle sigh. Her giant head sagged heavily into my hands more...
Ellenburg
A collection of poetry, essays.... more...
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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...
Womens Media Center
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.
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Maureen MacNamara
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...
Maureen MacNamara
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...
Sheville Staff
The Progressive Voice of the Mountains
A broadcast service of the Mountain Area Information Network more...
Sheville Staff
MAIN’s relationship with our mountain region is “biological, not industrial,” more...
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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...
Va Boyle
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.
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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...
Lytingale
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...
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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
Sheville Staff
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
Sheville Staff
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
Sheville Staff
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
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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
Sheville Staff
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
Alice Walker
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
M. Linda Rowe
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...
Sheville Staff
Fun things To Do List! more...
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Indigo
Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Edited by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
"Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town..."
Wendell Berry and MAIN’s alternative media vision by Wally Bowen
ROBIN CAPE: ACTIVISM IS HER MIDDLE NAME
MANNA needs donations!
Animal Compassion Network - WNC's largest no-kill, non-profit animal welfare organization