Location: Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina My goal for the next year is to keep embracing all that life sends my way. Here’s to as much family time and gatherings with friends as I can squeeze into the next year. I am particularly excited about having everyone gather in Madison, Wisconsin in June for Noah and …
Age: 26 Location: Charlotte, NC Josh Broughton’s first role on stage, and one that launched a lifelong love of theatre, was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his middle school’s production of Annie. Fast forward ten years and many roles later, and Josh was able to reprise his role as FDR In the Charlotte Jewish Community Center (JCC)’s recent production …
Age: 50 Location: Charlotte, NC Before moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018 to serve as the pastor at Mount Olive Presbyterian Church, Willie Keaton had been working to strengthen inner cities for twenty years. “I was organizing before I knew that was the term for what I was doing,” he says.“ If you are a pastor, you …
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina One of the new holiday traditions we have added to the mix – along with the annual staples of decorating cookies and watching Love Actually and How Murray Saved Christmas – is the wish basket. Each family member gets to put an activity in the wish basket that all of us do together. It is a way …
Location: Charlotte, NC Sometimes life’s lows make the highs all the sweeter. Welcome home, Eliza! I am so glad you were able to get the help you needed – both therapeutic and pharmaceutical – to get well. Bringing you home mid-semester from your studies in Ireland and sending you across the country to a treatment center for almost …
Age: 44 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina When Jill Blumenthal was in middle school, a classmate told her that her family was rich. “I didn’t know what she was talking about,” Jill says. She knew her family’s name on many local businesses and institutions spoke to the family’s many contributions to the Queen City, but she did not fully appreciate the extent …
Location: Asheville, North Carolina One of my darkest days in my cancer journey was when the Cisplatin (one of two chemo drugs I received intravenously and through a peritoneal port in my abdomen) peaked. From one moment to the next, I developed a metallic taste in my mouth and everything tasted like the inside of a …
Age: 43 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Heather and Phil Gail were college sweethearts. Heather’s dad spotted Phil on the back of a pickup truck when he was helping Heather move into her dorm at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He took in Phil’s bald head and earring and rowdy group and jokingly told Heather not to bring …
Age: 28 Location: Portland, Oregon Liz Preston says her brain has always been wired for storytelling. She sees everything as people and character driven and so filmmaking was a natural fit for her. “I originally majored in music technology ,” she says, referring to her undergraduate studies at Montana State University, “because I wanted to write music for film.” She …
Jynell Whitehead, 30, Aracelis Lopez 48 Natalie Feliciano, 23, Rebecca Dominguez 41 Ny-Asia Anderson, 26, Aiza Anderson, 46 Location: Charlotte, NC When I see someone taking a photo, I will often offer to take one of the whole group so that the photographer can be in the picture too. (David does not always find this trait endearing because …