>> Illness, disability, and/or pain afflict North Carolina women on an average of five days each month. That means that for two whole months a...[Read More]
Tag Archives: health
>>It’s October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month – and it’s the time of year when the whole world seems to turns pink. Yogurt lids are...[Read More]
>>I remember sitting in freshman orientation at UNC in Chapel Hill, watching upperclassmen perform skits about campus safety, relationships, and sex. The message about needing...[Read More]
>>I was at the park with my kids a few days ago, when a little boy came up to me and pointed at my eye....[Read More]
>>BY JANEEN GINGRICH There are moments in your life when you know what you’re doing will alter your path forever. For me, one of those...[Read More]
>>For some reason, an inordinate number of my children’s friends were born in late summer or early fall. In some ways this is great: our...[Read More]
>>On Thursday morning at about 4:00 am, the North Carolina General Assembly’s long session adjourned. And a long session it was – only one session...[Read More]
>> My ex-husband found out where I was living in hiding with our six-month-old son. He kicked in the door and beat me to unconsciousness....[Read More]
>>My grandmother’s “Peanut Parties” were the best. She would set us kids on the porch with a huge tub of locally-grown peanuts to shell. When...[Read More]
>>Viewers of a West Virginia television station – and soon after, the entire country – stood transfixed as a deadly shooting unfolded on live television....[Read More]