When it comes to planning and executing a styled shoot, you have to be prepared to roll with the punches. While we had planned to photograph a historic-meets-modern tablescape outdoors,...

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...

In college I took a Voice and Diction class for my journalism major. I clearly recall our professor teaching us how to take “cleansing breaths” to prepare ourselves for public...

One of my favorite pieces of furniture is tucked into a corner of my 17-month-old son’s rarely used bedroom. It’s my Great Aunt Louise’s hope chest—a dark cherry wood heirloom...

After moving to Lynchburg in 2008, I was desperately trying to “find my place in this world”—as Michael W. Smith poignantly described in his 1990 song. Just a green 24-year-old...

True confessions from a mother, wife and work-from-home magazine editor. Sometimes I pour a can of Manwich into some ground beef, throw some buns on the table and call it...