I’m a repeat offender. I’ve checked my text messages while at the dinner table with my kids. I’ve checked my Twitter feed at red lights while my kids are in the car. I’ve rushed to tuck my children into bed so I can reply to e-mails.
Author: Anne Fitten Glenn
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Brews News: The end-of-summer edition
Drink a Liquid Quack and get in training for Brewgrass (or just drink up because summer is almost over).
Edgy Mama: love thy veggies
“Eat your veggies!” It’s a refrain that rings out in homes all over the country at least once each day. Well, in most homes with kids.
A bona fide beer rock star and beer fests galore
Another brewmaster visits Asheville If you’re a beer geek, you’re probably on a first-name basis with as least one or two local brewers. Brewers often take on the status of celebrities to those of us who spend a lot of time quaffing and discussing their beers, especially in towns like Asheville where support for small […]
Brews News: A bona fide beer rock star and beer fests galore
Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery’s brewmaster, is coming to Asheville. Plus, mark these beer festivals on your calendar.
—Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery
Edgy Mama: inexpensive fun with kids at summer’s end
Another summer’s almost over here in Western North Carolina. Asheville City School students return to school on August 16 — which means it’ll still feel like summer in terms of heat, but it won’t feel like summer for the young ‘uns spending all day sitting in classrooms. But we still have a couple weeks left of sweaty boredom, afternoons at the pool, summer camps, forced summer reading and juggling adult work schedules. Between all that, here are some last minute, inexpensive summer fun activities that you can check out with your kids.
Edgy Mama: tricks for surviving another Bele Chere with kids
If you insist on chaperoning your kids to Bele Chere yourself, you’re clearly a better person than me. For you better people, I’ve come up with a few tricks to make the experience more bearable based on the past times when I felt it was my parental duty to take my progeny to the festival.
Brews News
Some of the locally crafted beer you drink over the next few months may contain locally grown hops. With the support of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, more and more WNC farmers are experimenting with growing the crop. Although hops have been successfully cultivated in the Western parts of the U.S. for decades, growing hops […]
Brews News: fun facts about hops
Some of that locally-crafted beer you drink over the next few months also may contain locally grown hops. With the support of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, more and more WNC farmers are experimenting with growing the crop.
—Photo courtesy of Echoview Farm
Edgy Mama: stuff not to waste your time stressing about as a parent
Without further ado, here’s 10 things I give you parents permission not to waste your time worrying about…
Edgy Mama: childfree: places NOT to take your kids
Here in Asheville, people seem to think it’s OK to take their babies (and their dogs) wherever they want. Just know that some people (OK, me) might get feisty when your baby, whom you thought was going to sleep for another hour, wakes up and starts screaming during the climax of an R-rated movie.
Brews News: What to drink when it’s hot outside
To celebrate summer, I’ve chosen one easy-drinking summer brew from each of Asheville’s breweries that I think is worth a taste.
Edgy Mama: the mommy makeover series—dye for “the hair down there”
I confess to being somewhat fascinated by the time, money and energy some women put into their hair. And not just into the hair on their heads.
Edgy Mama: toxic sunscreens in the USA
Once again I’m at the beach with my kids and extended family, typing the names of all our sunscreens into Environmental Working Group’s Sunscreen Guide. I neglected to take my own advice from last summer and bought a bunch of bottles, tubes and sticks of protective lotions, potions and gels — without checking the ingredients.
Brews News
The first Asheville Beer Masters Tournament (modeled after the Wyncoop Beer Drinker of the Year and Philly Beer Geek competitions) was a sudsy success. The winner, Asheville Beer Master Trevor Reis, talked to me about his success, Asheville beer, why Green Man Brewing’s double IPA should be Mayor of Asheville and more. Xpress: Tell us […]
Brews News
Why Green Man’s double IPA should be mayor, and more wisdom from the first Asheville Beer Master
Edgy Mama: bunches of blogging parents to hit town for Type-A Parent Conference
This weekend’s Type-A-Parent conference will bring in mommy (and daddy) bloggers from all over the country and beyond.
Edgy Mama: the fear-mongering edition (or keeping your kids safe in the summer)
Here’s my mama fear-mongering list of warm weather dangers, and ways you can work to protect your kids from them.
Brews News
Those of you who love local beer already know the score — it’s three. Asheville has — for the third time — clenched the title of BeerCity USA via the on-line poll of the same name (though we tied with the much bigger town of Portland, Ore., in the first poll, in 2009). Asheville won […]
Brews News: Asheville for the BeerCity USA hat trick
Those of you who love local beer already know the score—it’s three. Asheville has — for the third time — clenched the title of BeerCity USA via the on-line poll of the same name.
Edgy Mama: Sex education around here
Until this past school year, North Carolina’s public school “health” education curriculum promoted abstinence-only sex education. But in 2010, the Healthy Youth Act was passed into law, the goal of which is to offer a more comprehensive reproductive health and safety program to seventh- through ninth-graders.