Guest post by Michele Mannering, PhD, Psychologist 🧠 Mom 😘 Runner 🏃♀️ The feeling you get as Memorial Day approaches is typically blissful: days are longer, school is winding down, and vacation is on the horizon. Kids are equally excited for the days ahead: no school, no homework, and counting down the days until summer […]
Let’s take this outside. Patio parties and driveway meetups are the new way to connect with friends and neighbors. Limiting the total number in attendance to 10 or under makes it easy to spend quality time together ~ so what if you have to shout a bit to stay safely apart? Spruce up your outdoor […]
Additional local stores are opening up every day, many with limited hours and abundant safety measures in place. Most still offer curbside pick up if you don’t want to head into the store. Here’s this week’s list of Who Is Opening This Week with the deets. The Pink Hanger is Now Open! Revised store hours […]
So it is official. No one will be returning to campus for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. CMS, along with the local private schools, have all announced that they will remain in remote learning through the end of the year. What I have come to learn over the course of my countless Zoom […]
Need a change of scenery but still want to stay socially distant? Here’s a fun idea for an outing ~ combine your takeout orders with a drive by some of our city’s amazing murals. We’ve set up our list by neighborhood, with suggestions of where to grab a bite to eat, some sweet treats or […]
We at scoop are Team Stay Safe at Home, so we highly recommend you are overly-cautious about heading out, for your own health, and that of your family, and the community as a whole. However, we know, some of you may need to buy something at a local store. And we are, literally, in the […]
We haven’t had to worry about WHAT TO WEAR for weeks, and we’re all having withdrawals. We’ll be putting on real clothes to venture out of the house, face mask applied, soon though, and we’ve been doing just a bit of fashion reconnaissance for when that finally happens. To get the scoop, we reached out […]
Our May House of the Month for 2020 is an two-story home in the heart of Historic Dilworth. Take the Virtual Tour Here. This home boasts a large rocking chair front porch which functions as fabulous outdoor living space. Built in 1910 and featuring so much historic charm, the house has been updated with all […]
Molly Grantham, of course. The wife, mom of two with a third soon on the way, full time TV news anchor for WBTV, habitual non-profit emcee and charity champion used her shelter in place time to write and self-publish her second book; The Juggle is Real. If you read her first book, Small Victories, she […]
It’s possible to pursue something for yourself while simultaneously showing up well for the people you love. It’s possible to be a great mother and a great entrepreneur. Rachel Hollis These ladies prove everyday that there is truth to that quote. Although they all came to be business owners in different ways and for different […]
In the world of college admissions that the only thing that is predictable, is that it is unpredictable. Right now, as you know, that statement is especially true. The changes that are currently taking place are unprecedented – we, including the institutions of higher education, are in uncharted waters. Over the past month, I have […]
Whitley Adkins Hamlin, aka The QueenCityStyle, has always married her love for fashion & style with her caring and love for the Charlotte community as a whole. Back in 2013 she joined forces with several other locals to create WARM CHARLOTTE an overwhelmingly successful Winter coat drive that ran for a few years. As a […]
