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Cutting Edge Florida Home Design
Re-posted from March 26, 2015 Minto on the Cutting Edge of Home Design By Nancy Gross Minto Communities is one of North America’s leading builders offering a wide array of award-winning new homes and resort-style master-planned communities in warm, sunny Florida. It’s no surprise that Minto is at the vanguard of building homes with the…
Read MoreThree Little-Known Words
That Could Change Your Life by Jan Cullinane What if you could modify your genes? Slow the aging process? Increase your lifespan (or as I like to call it, your healthspan)? We hear this advice all the time: Exercise and eat well. Knowing why exercising and good nutrition work at the cellular level can drive…
Read MoreHealthy Living: Enjoying the Ride in NC
Biking in NC. Enjoy the Ride. North Carolina cycling. With nine designated routes spanning 3,000 miles, the NC Bikeways system has NC covered. Biking in NC. By Jamie Penn. Previously published in the 2016 Fall Issue. North Carolina is one of those states in which it’s really hard to sit at home. Famous for having…
Read MoreHealthy Living Brain Tricks
You Can Teach an Old(er) Brain New Tricks. How to keep your Brain healthy. By Jan Cullinane. Previously published in the 2016 Fall Issue. Old Thinking: Crossword puzzles and Sudoku are great for our brain, perhaps staving off dementia. New Thinking: Crossword puzzles and Sudoku make us better at crossword puzzles and Sudoku. Old Thinking:…
Read MoreUtah’s Mighty 5
Utah Might 5. National Park. parks. by JG Walker. Recently published in the Fall 2016 Magazine. “The Mighty 5” isn’t a new action hero movie that the grandkids are clamoring to see. It’s the muscular nickname for an awe-inspiring collection of five national parks in southern Utah that will have you and the grands gasping…
Read MoreIdeal Destinations Smooth Moves
Moonshine flows out of the past and into the mainstream. By Fanny Slater published in the 2016 Fall issue. Remember those rowdy 20-something parties where you’d empty every juice in the fridge and a generous helping of clear, high-proof liquor into a bathtub filled with ice? Yeah, me either. But that was kind of the…
Read MoreOn the Trail Holy Smokes
Why the Carolinas rule the Barbecue battle and where you can go to sink your teeth into the action. Southern Recipe included! By Fanny Slater as published in the 2016 Fall issue. In the Carolinas, barbecue is a noun. You don’t “barbecue a steak,” and the word is not synonymous for a grill. In the…
Read MoreIdeal Destinations 10 Walkable Towns 2016
10 Walkable Towns – Explore These Southern Communities. Top 10 Walkable Southern Towns by Emily Colin. What does it mean for a town or city to be ‘walkable?’ Clearly, pedestrians need to be able to walk from one place to the next-there needs to be sidewalks and crosswalks, stoplights and signs. But walkability is about…
Read MoreSomething New and Special Every Year
Tony Viollis Lives a New Kind of Retirement By Emily Hackeling. Previously published in the 2016 Fall issue. It’s noon on a Tuesday, and my phone rings. I answered, expecting to talk with Tony Viollis, the St. Mary School Athletic Director, about his retirement before I headed to work. I had no clue I’d hang…
Read MoreBuilder Profile: AV Homes
Award-Winning Active Adult Lifestyle Communities: Lifestyle Blended With Healthy Living and a Natural Environment By Warren Grant. Previously published in the 2016 Fall issue. Much like the Farmer’s Insurance tagline, you could say of Scottsdale-based homebuilder AV Homes, “they know a thing or two because they’ve seen a thing or two.” Founded in 1970, a…
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