As we all know not every ingredient in your pantry makes a cake, but if certain ingredients are mixed together with love and care, you can create something delicious! Tracy Queensberry has managed to combine just the right ingredients into Icing Smiles. Icing Smiles is her nonprofit organization that she has poured her heart into, [...]
I always know when the Summer’s End Jam in Elkridge is coming up because my husband gets the phone call about being put in the dunk booth. This year the event happened on Sunday, September 19th. So with bathing suit in hand, my husband happily headed to Elkridge to be dunked by community members, his [...]
Keeping your business afloat in choppy waters By Jeffrey D. Carlson, CFP® Small business is said to be the lifeblood of the nation’s economy. Cash can be the lifeblood of any small business that wants to survive and thrive through a choppy economic environment. Building up a sufficient cash reserve to help see a [...]
In a hard fought and exciting match Tuesday evening, the Marriotts Ridge Girls Soccer Team defeated visiting Centennial 2-1 to remain undefeated on the season at 3-0-1. Only a 0-0 double-overtime tie against perennial state powerhouse Century in the season opener mars their record. Following wins over Howard and Wilde Lake, Centennial promised to be [...]
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Recently I visited two small businesses where the owners informed me that it was their intention to operate the businesses for another four to five years, sell off the businesses and retire on the proceeds. However, upon further examination, it became apparent that the businesses could not operate for more than a few days without [...]
There are none more important than the Junior and Senior years of your high school student’s life. Take it from somebody who knows. Exams, sports, a job, societies and on top of everything else, the university application, looming over our heads like a dark cloud come to rain on our parade. Everybody pretends they know [...]
Chicken noodle soup is not only good for your soul, but having a steamy cup of soup can help you eat less and stay slim. The magic of serving up a bowl is found in the water content. Some know that water helps us feel full without a lot of calories. If we choose the [...]
We can design our relationships more intentionally than most people may realise. We actually “train” people in the ways that they should respond to us It Takes All Kinds In our lives, we have all manner of relationships-from acquaintances we bump into at the shop, friends with whom we share a common interest, all the [...]
Walking home with friends last night from the base movie theater, we passed a flagpole on the parade grounds of Patch Barracks. At the base of the humongous pole was a tiny plastic pot with one white chrysanthemum sprouting from its soil. “There’s our flower!” bellowed our friends’ four-year-old daughter, Megan. Puzzled at first, we [...]
“It’s a family,” Zach, my youngest son will say. ”I can’t imagine myself anywhere else.” He is now a junior, in his second year at Jemicy Upper School. As parents, we find that not only does Jemicy provide a college preparatory academic program, it also builds students’ self esteem, and provides bonding and unifying opportunities [...]
