March 2010 Edition
As I write this in the wee hours, fresh from the BSBPA Annual Community Meeting and Mixer, I find it very easy to focus on the "Green" theme of March associated with St. Patty's Day and the coming of Spring time. You see, the featured speaker this year was Karen Totino, long time resident and newer business owner of Green Conscience Home and Garden, who provided a darn interesting presentation about "Goin' Green", some of the items from her retail store and ways (and why) we should remember why becoming a sustainable community really matters. What really impressed me, as ...
Featured Business: Make Me Fabulous
Q. Describe your business and how you got started. Well, I guess I got started when I was in High School. I would do hair and makeup at slumber parties. Sometimes girls would then sneak away to meet their boyfriends! I also remember “trying” to color and cut my cousins’ hair in those days. We would then wake in the morning and try to ‘fix’ it! But officially, after my son Cameron was born in 1997, I decided to leave my full time job as a sales rep for TRW, now Experian, to be a ...
Winter 2010 Edition
So it's our 3rd New Year together and as I contemplate the year that has passed, and the year that lies ahead of us, one word keeps coming back to my mind: profound. Its been an arduous year filled with great challenge, many changes and I for one am a profoundly different person than one year ago....are you? Yes, most of us begin our new year in the same place, hopefully working the same job, facing the same joys and burdens as in the past year, however, it is a profound opportunity and privilege to be able to reflect ...
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March 2010 Edition
As I write this in the wee hours, fresh from the BSBPA Annual Community Meeting and Mixer, I find it very easy to focus on the “Green” theme...
Featured Business: Make Me Fabulous
Q. Describe your business and how you got started. Well, I guess I got started when I was in High School. I would do hair and makeup at slumber parties....
Winter 2010 Edition
So it’s our 3rd New Year together and as I contemplate the year that has passed, and the year that lies ahead of us, one word keeps coming back to...







