October - November - December 2022
A Word From The Publisher
It’s that time of year again. Time to break out your cozy sweaters and dust off your boots. Time to head to the attic and bring down the holiday decorations. Time to fire up the st...
Fall Into Fun In The Forest
It’s fall y’all, which means the holidays are just around the corner! The Town of Wake Forest loves this time of year as much as you do, and we’re celebrating by offering a heart...
Decor Dilemma?
Now that autumn has arrived, it’s time to say goodbye to summer’s decorating trends – bye bye beachy blues! This year, fall’s decorating landscape is all about warmth, texture, pat...
Hidden Gems
The anticipation of a new season approaching is always exciting. Mother Nature has a way of bringing in new temperatures at just the right time. If heading to higher ground for the...
Financial Focus
There are no shortcuts to investment success – you need to establish a long-term strategy and stick with it. This means you’ll want to create an investment mix based on your goals,...
Cheers To The Unique
As I begin this exercise in wine suggestions, fall is finally upon us and the end of 90+ degree days are (hopefully) now behind us. So what do we do as we are blasted in the grocer...
Falling For Squash
Autumn brings cooler weather, brilliant color, and a renewed desire to head into the kitchen and whip up some comfort food. As we enter the fall months, we crave hearty and savory ...
A Fall Refresh
Seasonal decorating gives us an opportunity to give our home, the place where we spend most of our time, a much-needed refresh. As the autumn days get shorter and the temperatures ...
Plants For The Autumn Garden
While the beautiful blossoms of summer are now just a lovely memory, autumn’s cooler temperatures mean that your garden’s next round of flowers and plants are getting ready to shin...
Choke Fruit Anyone?
Possumwood (or persimmon wood) boasts the flavorful fall fruit persimmon, or “choke fruit,” as it is so fondly called (I’ll get to why it’s received this colorful nickname shortly)...
Driveable Destination
Located in Orange County and just a short 45-minute drive from the greater Wake Forest area, the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro can be considered neighbors to Wake County. But t...
Staying Safe
There’s a lot to love about autumn – the changing leaves, pumpkin carving, sweater weather – but when it comes to getting behind the wheel of a car, the change in season from summe...
Game Day Grilling
There’s nothing quite like football season … cheering on your favorite team while enjoying fabulous fall weather, fun with family and friends, and of course, food! While the...
Seasonal Selling
Pumpkin spice, apple pies, the Thanksgiving feast, and festive holiday decor. All true signs that the fall and holiday months are here! As the leaves change color and the days get ...
Stopping Styes
Ouch! That painful, red bump on your eyelid might be a stye – a bacterial infection of the oil glands in your eyelid. They often look like pimples at the edge of the eyelid, but st...
Cloudy Skies And Dense Breast Tissue
Imagine you’re looking for a tiny white bird in a sky that’s filled with thick, white clouds. Now, imagine you’re looking at a clear, blue sky looking for that same tiny bird. In w...
Cravin' Crab Dip
This time of year is all about family, friends, festivities, football – and food. One of the best parts about it is grazing on delicious nibbles before the big game, savoring while...
Good Reads
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about your gift-giving list. Not sure what to buy? How about the gift of reading? After all, as author Neil Ga...
The Art Of Choosing Color
You know that feeling when you decide you want to transform a space by painting your walls, so you venture to the store to pick out swatches, become overwhelmed by the seemingly en...
Cook(i)ed In Tradition
Whether swapped at the annual neighborhood cookie exchange, nibbled on at the office holiday party, given as a personal gift to family and friends, set out for Santa and his reinde...
Holiday Hazards
Part of the magic and wonder of the holiday season is seeing children’s delight as they open a special gift from their toy wish list. Yet, toy injuries can put a damper on holiday ...
Get Ready!
It’s hard enough to get a big, complicated holiday feast on the table – piping hot and tasting great – with guests milling around your kitchen. The last thing you need is an unexpe...
Ho Ho Hold Off Holiday Cavities
The fall season is chock full of festive holiday fun and celebrations. It’s also chock full of Halloween candy, s’mores, pumpkin pies, gingerbread cookies, eggnog, candy canes, and...
Fashion Forecast
Every year, as soon as Labor Day passes and the first leaves begin to fall, I conjure up memories of back-to-school shopping with my mother. Back then, it meant plaid dresses with ...
Free (From) Falling
Falls – not fall, the beautiful season of glorious weather, vibrant foliage, and pumpkin spice everything that we are finally experiencing – no, I’m talking about falls, with an “s...
Christmas Tree Q&A
For generations, Christmas trees have symbolized the joy of the holiday season. There’s something so special and heartwarming about the fresh scent of a real tree wafting through t...
Support Local
We all know that shopping locally has many benefits. Not only does it help the economy in our community, but it also keeps money circulating within it. When you shop at local busin...
Protect Your Pet
The holidays are upon us, and as we get into the hustle and bustle of the season, it’s important to remember to keep your pet’s safety in mind. Our pets may enjoy the holidays too,...
Our Heritage
According to Smithsonian magazine, a museum is a community’s front porch. If that is the case, then a country store is the community’s back porch. It is a place where neighbors do ...