Editor’s Letter November/December 2022
Written by: Megan Williams • November 1, 2022
Is there a busier time of the year than the holidays? ...
Editor’s Letter September/October 2022
Written by: Megan Williams • September 1, 2022
I remember the first time I felt truly impacted by art. I was on a class trip to Washington, D.C., and we were in the middle of a tour of...
Editor’s Letter May/June 2022
Written by: LynchburgLiving • May 1, 2022
Season of Change Hello, Lynchburg, and greetings from Virginia Beach! I am the Editor-in-Chief of Coastal Virginia Magazine, a lifestyle...
Editor’s Letter March/April 2022
Written by: Shelley Basinger • March 1, 2022
The Best Learning Experience In March 2016, I got a text from a friend, the former of editor of Lynchburg Living, telling me about her old...
Editor’s Letter Nov/Dec 2021
Written by: Shelley Basinger • November 1, 2021
An Accidental Tradition A few years ago, my husband and I were looking for ways to spice up our Christmas a bit—or maybe it was to feel a...
Editor’s Letter Sept/Oct 2021
Written by: Shelley Basinger • September 1, 2021
New Perspectives You know the phrase, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”? Well it certainly doesn’t apply to our cover...
Editor’s Letter May/June 2021
Written by: LynchburgLiving • May 1, 2021
Over the past decade, but more so in the past five years, we have watched my mother-in-law slowly progress through the devastating stages...
Editor’s Letter Mar/Apr 2021
Written by: LynchburgLiving • March 1, 2021
While I can’t remember everything I learned in my college journalism program, there is one foundational lesson that I carry with me:...
Editor’s Letter Jan/Feb 2021
Written by: LynchburgLiving • January 1, 2021
Roll out the red carpet and give me a trophy, because I actually kept one of my New Year’s Resolutions last year. As 2020 began, I told...
Editor’s Letter November/December 2020
Written by: Shelley Basinger • November 1, 2020
Have you ever experienced a major gift-giving fail? I have—and it was just last Christmas. My daughter asked for a play kitchen, and...