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This year’s festival is kicking off June 20, 2022 with a full week of fun on the itinerary.  The Watermelon Festival is truly an invaluable contribution to our community.  I want to give you my top five reasons you need to do all the festival things! 1. Festivals are a great way to create community. … Continue reading Top Five Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss the Watermelon Festival →

Summer Reading Adventures for You and Your Kids "No more classrooms, no more books, no more..." Waaaait a minute. No more books? Reading should be a favorite summer activity!  It helps students to avoid the dreaded summer slide.  The “summer slide” is when children lose skills learned during the school year.  For many children, learning … Continue reading Avoiding the Summer Slide →

The Secondhand Store that Helps Heal Hearts Estill local, Sheila Roemeling has always had a heart for helping others in her community. Through nonprofit organization, Fresh Start Healing Heart, she compassionately walks beside survivors of human trafficking, providing safe housing, immediate needs, and restorative services for emotional, spiritual, physical, educational, and financial healing.  Sheila had … Continue reading A Fresh Start →

Remember the good old days?  Urban dictionary defines “the good old days” as a phrase used by old people. “When these words are used in combination it is a signal to young people to get the heck out.” If you have ever been young, you know that urban dictionary is not wrong. After all, remembering … Continue reading These Are the Good Old Days →

New Season, Fresh Start! It’s happening again—the signs of springtime are popping up in full swing to brighten the world. Here in the low country, we are especially blessed to get a head start on spring (no matter what that groundhog says). We may have a few more cold days ahead but the azalea filled … Continue reading Springing into Spring →

From little free libraries and blessing boxes to the upcoming local election, keep reading for tips that can make our hometown even more awesome.  There are all kinds of ways for citizens to be more involved in our communities and make an impact.  Individuals often think that what they can give is not enough to … Continue reading A Better Hometown →

How can we help?  What can we do?  Is Human Trafficking even a problem in the Lowcountry? A few years ago, I sat in a circle of multigenerational ladies from every background and all circles of life sharing concerns for a young girl in my life who had been sexually assaulted.  I will never forget … Continue reading January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month →

To Make the Season Bright Memories of my Appalachian childhood Christmases play in my mind like vivid snapshots.  Singing “Jingle Bells” with cousins.  Searching the sky for “Rudolph’s nose” or signs of Santa’s sleigh.  The children’s nativity plays in our crowded country church. Bluegrass Christmas music with some of the best pickers you ever heard.  … Continue reading Festive Family Activities →

Turn Your Home into a Sanctuary This Fall and Winter The sun is setting earlier, and time change is quickly approaching (November 7, 2021).  It can be challenging as we transition our bodies and moods into a new season.  Some of us find ourselves missing the sunshine and even battling Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).  Did … Continue reading Live The Cozy “Hygge” Life →

5 Things You Should Know As y’all know so well, soil that plants are rooted in has much to do with the fruits and flavors they bear. So, it's not a huge leap to apply that analogy to people.  Those of us growing up in good ol’ country soils sometimes scratch our heads at the … Continue reading Country Folk and City Folk →