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“How can I develop conversation between my daughter and me?”

Q: “How can I develop conversation between my daughter and me? Once she hit puberty, she stopped talking to me. She has always felt comfortable telling me things, but not anymore. She talks all the time on her phone, but never to her mom. Help!”Joyce: Two things: limit phone use and start a writing dialogue. Kids will define their circle of confidantes, and many times parents will not be in those boundaries.But, let’s be fair. Why does she need to talk to you when she has unlimited contact with kids her age? You’re the mom. [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-17T14:45:00-04:00April 17, 2017|Just Ask Joyce|

What the Horse Trainer is Reading, Watching, and Listening to

By Megan M. Seckman Years ago on the North Dakota Chippewa tribe’s reservation, Turtle Mountain, there lived a family of four little girls and a pasture of broken-down thoroughbreds. Each day, the girls would exercise these horses the rest of the race industry no longer deemed valuable. The girls’ father, Sylvester Alex Poitra, may have quietly wished for boys, but taught each daughter to ride before they could properly walk. And that is how he made a living out of these discarded, maned athletes — and how Reta Underwood was introduced to the world of [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-02T08:30:00-04:00April 2, 2017|Derby, She's Reading|

Maybe It’s Time to Plan Now for Christmas in Paris

By Megan Seckman A view of Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris from The Left Bank. If you’ve ever said, “Next year, I’m leaving town” amidst the cacophony of endless Christmas gatherings and twinkling lights; if the pressure, and the calories, and the spending, spending, spending during the holidays leave you exhausted and wishing to run for the hills, this article is for you. Every year, I know I proclaim that next year will be different, but once the tree is taken down, normal life resumes, and the mountain of debt is conquered through quiet monthly payments, the [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-27T08:30:00-04:00March 27, 2017|Travel|

Just a Little Sinister…but she is following her artistic dream

By Brigid MorrisseyRobert Louis Stevenson was all too familiar with the human psyche. When he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he captured the concept of the divided self with deadly accuracy, the ability for one person to acquire different and sometimes opposing personas. As a legal secretary at a law firm by day and a macabre artist by night, Kristen Warf accepts each persona with a dignified understanding. Kristen’s day job pays the bills, but her role as mask maker, actor, makeup artist, and general manager of Haunted Hotel in [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-24T08:30:00-04:00March 24, 2017|Passions|

Ideas for Caregiving and Bathing

By Tiffany White Sheila Carter, owner of Heartsong Memory Care, shares her top five secrets to success when it comes to bath time refusals.Find out why the person refuses to bathe. Is it fear of water? Fear of falling? Too cold?Don’t ask “Do you want to…” Instead, get their help doing something in the bathroom, engage them in positive conversation, and subtly move into “let’s clean up while we’re here.”Avoid words that trigger negative responses such as bath. Clean up may be a better phrase.If they refuse, try again later using a different approach or [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-19T08:30:00-04:00March 19, 2017|Today's Transitions Now|

Bubbly for Basketball

By Bella Portaro KueberA few of Mo's favorite things include a basketball, a magnum bottle of champagne, and this bell that sits on her desk at work. What do basketball, bubbly, and bouncing back have in common? They're sources of strength and positivity for Mo Rose, 102.3 The Max radio host and WHAS11 television news personality. Mo, a transplant from Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in broadcast journalism and arrived in Louisville in 2012 where she began working for 99.7 WDJX with Ben and Kelly in the mornings.“It was a great [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-12T08:30:00-04:00March 12, 2017|Passions|

“How can I develop conversation between my daughter and me?”

What the Horse Trainer is Reading, Watching, and Listening to

Maybe It’s Time to Plan Now for Christmas in Paris

Just a Little Sinister…but she is following her artistic dream

Ideas for Caregiving and Bathing

Bubbly for Basketball

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