by April Allman | May 12, 2017 | Just Ask Joyce
By Joyce Oglesby Q: “When you get married, does your husband’s past debt become your debt? We’ve been married for three years, and a sizable student loan suddenly appeared. This was something I knew nothing about until now, and he expects me to help pay this down with...
by April Allman | May 2, 2017 | Food
By Paige RhodesEveryone expects to see Mint Juleps on your Derby Day spread, but instead of doing the same thing as last year and the year before that, try this twist on the traditional cocktail. Instead of diluting your drink with unnecessary water from the crushed...
by April Allman | Apr 17, 2017 | Just Ask Joyce
Q: “How can I develop conversation between my daughter and me? Once she hit puberty, she stopped talking to me. She has always felt comfortable telling me things, but not anymore. She talks all the time on her phone, but never to her mom. Help!”Joyce: Two things:...
by April Allman | Apr 2, 2017 | Derby, She's Reading
By Megan M. Seckman Years ago on the North Dakota Chippewa tribe’s reservation, Turtle Mountain, there lived a family of four little girls and a pasture of broken-down thoroughbreds. Each day, the girls would exercise these horses the rest of the race industry no...
by April Allman | Mar 27, 2017 | Travel
By Megan Seckman A view of Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris from The Left Bank. If you’ve ever said, “Next year, I’m leaving town” amidst the cacophony of endless Christmas gatherings and twinkling lights; if the pressure, and the calories, and the spending,...
by April Allman | Mar 24, 2017 | Passions
By Brigid MorrisseyRobert Louis Stevenson was all too familiar with the human psyche. When he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he captured the concept of the divided self with deadly accuracy, the ability for one person to acquire different and...
