LIFESTYLE
What Do Newcomers Look for When Buying a Home in Charlotte
We know that Charlotte is the place to live.But...
SouthPark Makes It So Easy to Get Ready for the Holidays
Yikes! The Holiday countdown is ON! Thankfully, there’s no...
UPDATED: Ways to Help Western NC after Hurricane Helene (10/22)
While there are more and more options developing every...
Local Restaurants Where You Can Host Your Holiday Party This Year
We can't believe it either, but the holidays are...
PARTY PICS!! Mint Auxiliary CommenceMINT & Fall Enrichment Forum with William Ivey Long
The 65th Annual Room to Bloom Celebration hosted by the Mint Museum Auxiliary represents local fellowship and philanthropy at its best ~ a series of beautiful and entertaining events hosted by the Auxiliary's 600+ members spanning seven generations of...
Holiday Photo Card Tips from Local Family Photographers
Tiny Prints and Shutterfly, even Minted, are flooding our inbox with their holiday card promotions - highest quality paper, foiled holly leaves and perfect family photos - of course perfect family photos.
Whose family do they use for those stock...
The Society Guide’s 2017-2018 Giving Book is Out with Excellent Ideas for Local Giving
This year's Giving Book truly lives up to its mission to create a beautifully designed coffee-table-book to showcase the Society Guide's Charlotte nonprofit members, their impact in the community, and the projects and initiatives that need community support.
With a...
Formal Dinner Etiquette
A few weeks ago, I attended a formal dinner party and the host, and many of the guests, admitted to me (knowing what I do for a living) that they didn't know some of the basics of a formal...
How The Bechtler Museum Reaches Out Into Our Community
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art provides a collection of beautiful works of art, amazing cultural events and, of course, a famous Charlotte landmark with The Firebird, instagrammed, known and loved by many locals and visitors. What you may...
Conversation Skills: How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime.
Conversation Skills Etiquette
There is an art to elegantly starting, sustaining and ending a dialogue with strangers or friends. Experts call it conversational intelligence. Others call it the gift of gab. Hard as it may be for chatty people to...
The Empty Nesters Guide to Charlotte 2017
Please consider this article a work in progress. Since I am new to Empty Nesting, I have not had time to get all my "experiences" lined up and experienced. (Basically I’ve spent the first month of Empty Nesting trying...
Cancer: 10 Survivor Tips to See You Through
Hi, I'm Niki Hardy.
Did you know, in 2017 an estimated 1.7 million people in the USA will be diagnosed with cancer? The chances are you've either been diagnosed yourself, know someone who has, or know someone who's close...
The Scoop on Turning 50.
MiddlePause. That's a term I read yesterday when googling Turning 50. (although why I, having already done it, needed to google it, is a good question).
I like it though. Middlepause. I like that "50" would be the middle of life,...
Mural, Mural on the Wall. Our Favorite Street Art and Art Murals in Charlotte Right Now.
From political messages, to paying homage to the past, to showcasing strong women, to just being beautiful, the murals that have been popping up around Charlotte have made a statement.
Artists such as Nick Napoletano, Nico Amortegui, Rosalia Torres-Weiner, Matt...
Here are a Bunch of Cool Ways to Use Those Summer Photos
Going digital in our house has meant we almost never actually look back on all those fabulous trips, vacations, family fun and friends captured in our iPhone photos. We have them, but we don't really enjoy them like we...
Funeral Etiquette. What to Do When A Friend’s Loved One Dies.
My best friend’s mother died recently, and our mutual friends have been asking me what things they should and shouldn’t do to help her and her family through this difficult time. When someone outside of our own family dies,...