Season of Change Hello, Lynchburg, and greetings from Virginia Beach! I am the Editor-in-Chief of Coastal Virginia Magazine, a lifestyle magazine similar to Lynchburg Living and, like this publication, a...
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 spot opening up. “I...
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 little less...
New Perspectives You know the phrase, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”? Well it certainly doesn’t apply to our cover story about Lisa Richards and Michele Fredericks. When...
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 of Alzheimer’s. While there were plenty of...
While I can’t remember everything I learned in my college journalism program, there is one foundational lesson that I carry with me: Always plan for Murphy’s Law. Murphy’s Law is...
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 my husband, “I’m...
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 Santa shipped it to our house the...
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