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A Stain Removal App!

A Stain Removal App!

Your smartphone is now equipped with even more real-time solutions, including carpet stain information you can carry around with you. Every neatnik knows when spills happen, you have to spring into action. With the new Shaw Floors Carpet Stain App you get...

Coming Together to Save Lives

Coming Together to Save Lives

The Michigan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen has announced its 2016-2017 Large Grant Recipients. Thanks to Komen Michigan's supporters, the organization was able to fund breast health programs at 15 organizations, for a total investment of $592,054! Komen Michigan's...

Time Management: 7 Tips

Time Management: 7 Tips

No matter how organized you are, time inevitably slips away and your proverbial to-do list is left uncompleted. Let's face it: Even the most organized people could improve upon their time management skills. Michelle Steffes, President of IPV Consulting, offers some...

Summer Book Clubs for Kids: Best Mom Trick EVER!

Summer Book Clubs for Kids: Best Mom Trick EVER!

As the end of the school year nears and demands from projects, events and activities peak, I find myself yearning for summer—at least for my kids' sake. Later wake-up times, fewer scheduled activities, and less stress from homework and tests. While these kids...

A Walk Through History: Heritage Hill Tour

A Walk Through History: Heritage Hill Tour

West Michiganders are lucky to have one of the country's oldest historic districts right in our backyard! The Heritage Hill neighborhood consists of 1,300 homes dating back to 1843. On May 21 and 22, 2016, you can tour these beautiful architectural relics. During the...

E-mail Signatures: A Thing of the Past?

E-mail Signatures: A Thing of the Past?

Are e-mail signatures a thing of the past? GetResponse.com guest blogger Haley Osborne answers that question with an emphatic, "No!" She says your e-mail signature is essentially your electronic business card. Proper e-mail signatures contain important...

Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming

KDL Reads is a community reading event centered around award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson's book Brown Girl Dreaming. In her book, Woodson uses poetry to describe what it was like growing up as an African-American in the 1960s and 1970s. On Thursday, May 26, at...

Travel in Style

Travel in Style

When traveling for work, one thing usually comes to every woman's mind: "What do I pack?" How do you pack a professional wardrobe—and without looking like a wrinkled mess? Fabrics are the key. A fabulous fabric offered by Canadian designer Joseph Ribkoff is a...

Filling Your Emergency Information Kit

Filling Your Emergency Information Kit

If the unexpected occurs, will you have the right information at hand? Although the Boy Scout motto "be prepared" is a good rule of thumb for us all, recent studies indicate that Americans are woefully unprepared for emergencies that may come their way. Creating a...