“I help entrepreneurs piece together their vision into something sustainable…”

By Megan M. Seckman Vallorie sews a Nuno piece of fabric, which she created to make her top.  Nuno involves felting together merino wool and silk to produce a warm and soft fabric. Photos by Melissa Donald   Like most art, Vallorie Henderson’s textiles mirror her life. She takes fragments of felted wool and silk, a traditional technique inspired by her native Kentucky roots, cuts them up into morsels of color, and pieces them together to make a masterpiece. The lines are sometimes askew, the edges are often rough, the array of colors contrast, yet [...]

By |2018-06-21T15:26:28-04:00December 29, 2017|She's Reading|

Making an Event Fun Instead of Stressful

By Bella Portaro-Kueber Victoria Staton gives couples a chance to enjoy the wedding planning process. Photo by Aubrey Hillis Great! You’re getting married soon! Now what? All you need is love — and a wedding planner. Walking through the early planning stages can be difficult for any bride-to-be. “Brides either know exactly what they want or they’re completely clueless. But that is where I come in, and the process becomes fun instead of stressful. As I get to know them, I help transition them into a more relaxed zone,” says Victoria Staton of Victoria Staton [...]

By |2018-06-21T15:15:29-04:00December 26, 2017|Passions|

She’s Helping Someone Start Over

By Carrie Vittitoe We featured Kena Young in the print magazine in December, but wanted to share a more detailed story of how she supports people in need. Sometimes the best ideas seem to rise out of thin air. Maybe they are divinely inspired or an idea you read or heard about long ago that disappeared from your consciousness but has been marinating in the recesses of your mind. Whatever and wherever their origins, the best ideas generally take hard work to come to fruition. Kena Young is putting the hard work behind her idea [...]

By |2018-06-21T15:15:29-04:00December 22, 2017|Passions|

Surviving a Category 5 Hurricane

By Megan M. Seckman While most of us watched Houston wade through the massive flooding of Hurricane Harvey, Helen and John Faith braced themselves for the next storm. Far out at sea, the warming Atlantic Ocean was fueling a budding Irma to become the next potential Category 5 hurricane of the season. Since January, the Faiths had spent all but five weeks on the Caribbean island of St. John, building their ideal vacation property and potential retirement home. The couple, who typically reside in their lakefront and landlocked home of Borden, Indiana, were no strangers [...]

By |2018-06-21T15:32:54-04:00December 22, 2017|Travel|

My Husband Only Wants Me To Buy Gifts for Him

By Joyce Oglesby Q: “My husband and I always fight at Christmas. We differ on the very fundamentals of the season. But when it comes to the benevolence, he likes getting gifts from me but doesn’t want me to give to others. He believes it should be an exclusive exchange between the two of us. Even when our kids were younger, it was a battle to buy for them. Now that they’re older, he thinks we’ve done enough for them and gifts are not necessary for them nor our grandchildren. I want to enjoy this [...]

By |2018-06-21T15:14:26-04:00December 3, 2017|Just Ask Joyce|

What Kelly Sullivan is Reading, Watching, Listening to… (also about how the girl who thought school was dumb became a Ph.D.)

By Megan M. SeckmanKelly loves wearing this beaker pin her boyfriend gave to her. Photos by Melissa Donald At 33, Dr. Kelly Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, is an Ivy League graduate, and has received several prestigious honors including Purdue University’s A.K. Balls award for excellence. Her passion for science runs so deep that she’s tattooed her favorite scientists, instruments, and formulas on her body. This inked tapestry consists of a pipette measuring tube that decorates the base of her neck, the Gibbs free energy equation, and Madame Curie. Among these odes to her field [...]

By |2017-11-27T09:30:00-05:00November 27, 2017|She's Reading|
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