How Does Pet Insurance Work and What Are the Costs?

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By Jason Hargraves When your furry friend falls ill or takes a bad fall off the couch, nobody wants to choose between a pet’s future and the pocketbook. Enter pet insurance. Pet insurance helps ease the pet health care cost burden for many families facing big bills for critical illness or emergency care for their beloved dogs or cats. September is National Pet Health Insurance Month, so it’s a good time to learn about the products available and assess your pet’s needs. Finding the perfect pet insurance can be especially important because visits to the veterinarian can be costly. Bills can

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3 Tips For Making Better Ethical Decisions Every Day

News reports bring us plenty of examples of poor professional ethics being practiced in business, entertainment, and government. But in terms of personal ethics as applied to everyday choices that we don’t read about, what percentage of people lie, cheat, steal, cut corners, or take advantage of others? Some studies show over 50 percent would cheat on their marital partner if they knew they wouldn’t get caught, and well over 1 million cheat on their taxes annually. Ethical transgressions some would consider small by comparison, such as accidentally denting a car door in a parking lot and then not leaving

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How to Get Your Child to Do Homework Without a Fight

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By Carol Tuttle When it comes to your child’s homework, do you beg, plead, or bribe? Do you threaten consequences? You can make homework easier for both you and your children with some simple tips that honor their natural energy. Every child has a dominant Energy Type that determines the way they move through life. It affects everything they do—playing, talking, eating, sleeping. And yes, it even shows up in the way they do homework! Ready to take the struggle out of homework? Here are homework tips for the 4 Types of children: Homework Tips for the Fun-loving Type 1

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Suicide Prevention Treatment Is Available Now Using This System

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You have watched your nephew slide into a depression that seems irreversible. Your spouse wakes up each night with night terrors brought on by post-traumatic stress. A student in your class has gone from shy to reclusive, refusing to go outside his home. Despite caring families that have tried everything, the problems remain. Matthew D. Dovel has dedicated his life’s work to understanding and preventing suicide, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress, and believes he has found the solution. Dovel, the founder and president of the nonprofit International Suicide Prevention, has developed a noninvasive, nonmedical treatment program called Nu-Rekall® which trains

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Low inventory and price increases put the heat on home sales for Charlotte region’s buyers

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Charlotte Metro region year-over-year home sales in June decreased 11.9 percent, with 4,724 properties sold compared to 5,360 properties sold in June 2017.  However, June’s sales compared to the previous month (May 2018) were up 4.1 percent.  Closings are down 2.1 percent year-to-date when compared to the first half of 2017. The average sales price in June 2018 ($302,177) increased 5.7 percent compared to June 2017 ($285,812), while the median sales price ($248,045) increased 2.8 percent compared to June 2017 ($241,250).  Compared to the previous month (May 2018), the average and the median sales prices increased 0.8 percent and 1.2

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‘All of Us Journey’ Hosted by Black Women’s Health and Community Blood Center

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In mid-June, the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) and Community Blood Center of the Carolinas (CBCC) hosted the All of Us Journeyat Simmons YMCA in Charlotte. The All of Us Journey is a part of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Journey is on a 37-week national tour, traveling the country to educate and enroll diverse communities in this new medical research program through an interactive mobile unit. All of Us is part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, instated by President Obama in 2015. The goal of this research program is to

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Charlotte-Based Leaf Burrito® Launches Environmental Crowdfunding Campaign

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Revolutionary new eco-conscious product eliminates single-use plastic bags Leaf Burrito®, a reusable yard waste removal bag, is designed to help save this planet’s environment from detrimental single-use plastic bags. One million plastic bags are discarded every hour into landfills where it takes 1,000 years to degrade. Patented Leaf Burrito was invented by Marc Mataya, a Charlotte resident and serial inventor, with a passion for environmental sustainability, green initiatives and keeping our cities beautiful. You can help us make a difference by supporting our crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. By using the Leaf Burrito, we can minimize the negative impacts that plastic

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Paint Your Hair Blue: A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer – Book Review

Sue Matthews, a CPA, wife, and mother of three, was living a normal life fifteen years ago until the day came when her middle child, daughter Taylor, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of eleven. The family was thrust into turmoil, confusion, angst, and deep sadness. But as Taylor fought courageously, a life mission developed that continues today, a decade after Taylor’s passing at age sixteen. In Paint Your Hair Blue, Matthews – with the help of her sister, Charlotte resident Andrea Cohane – take readers through the heartwarming tale of heroic courage and devastating blows that characterized Taylor’s

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“Fighting Parkinson’s…and Winning” — by Howard Shifke — Book Review

In his book “Fighting Parkinson’s…and Winning,” author Howard Shifke brings hope to the millions of people afflicted with the disease. Shifke was diagnosed with the disease, but he decided to cure himself from the disease rather than accept the medical viewpoint that the disease was incurable and that he was destined for a lifetime of suffering. Shifke had watched his mother suffer with Parkinson’s for 24 years while she followed the Western Medicine treatment plan, and he received his diagnosis two years after her death. However, having watched what had happened with his mother, he decided to take his future

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Coming soon to SouthPark: Palmetto Moon, American Eagle and The Athlete’s Foot

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SouthPark, the largest premier shopping destination between Atlanta and Washington, D.C., announced today that it will soon introduce Palmetto Moon, American Eagle and The Athlete’s Foot to its ever-evolving retail mix this spring. This announcement follows the recent openings of luxury candy boutique Sugarfina, home furnishing store Ballard Designs and the newly-expanded lululemon athletica. “It’s important that we continue to bring in stores that complement the center’s ever-growing roster of coveted brands” said Holly Roberson, director of marketing and business development for SouthPark. “Not only will the addition of these three retailers diversify our options, but it will continue to

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