Every month during what I call “hard deadline week,” when I sleep, I dream about work.

I put away Christmas decorations on the Day of Epiphany. It’s a way to delay taking apart what took so long to get in place, because it’s never as much fun toting all that stuff back to the attic.

My whole life is on that tree. It’s a sentence and sentiment I voice every year when I stand back and admire the Christmas tree once it’s decorated.

The economy still can’t take a deep breath, and neither can many businesses and people, financially speaking.

I imagine that most of us would say we’re hungry for something more: more fulfillment, love, purpose, adventure…

Community and business leader J.D. Wilson recently shared this Louis Nizer quote with me: “A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”

The saying “knowledge is power” is wrong. Knowledge is merely potential power until we use it.

By Emily-Sarah Lineback

Life has a lot of extremes, doesn’t it? In this issue we bring you luxury travel (and trips in general)…and homelessness. We have strong feelings about both.
Going on holiday (page 18) equals …

by Emily-Sarah Lineback

Driving on I-40 in Guilford County a few months ago, I read this on a billboard: Words are Powerful. So true. Relationships, businesses, hope…all are created—and are killed—with words. This magazine is no …

by Emily-Sarah Lineback
Daddy taught me how to ride a bicycle, and I remember him peddling beside me the first time I coasted down the hill behind the Village Market minus training wheels. Thrilling! Mother took …