BLOGS
Adventure Us: Roanoke area day trips, Part I
By Cristy Carr |
Virginia’s Native Allspice
By Tim Carr |
Roaming Roanoke: Little Green Hive
By Angela Evans |
The 5-Minute Answer: What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)?
By Marissa Siegel |
How the New Normal Brought Back Family Dinners
By Kristy Wyatt |
It was great seeing you all at the 2019 New Year’s at Noon event! It was a terrific time — despite our “technical difficulties.” A total of 100,000 bouncy balls fell at the stroke of noon (or a little after), ringing in 2020 with fun and excitement.
Christmas movies are special; they’re often films you can watch over and over again without getting tired of them. They make us hearken back to our childhoods, they give us a warm feeling, and they help make the season really feel like Christmas. Here are our top ten: 1. Home Alone Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas…
OT in the Community: Holiday Gifts to Promote Play by Lauren Pittard As an occupational therapist, my role is to promote participation in functional and meaningful activities. Think of “occupation” as anything somebody does to occupy his or her time. Children often spend their time playing, which makes play a very important childhood occupation. There…
Parents, we aren’t getting old — we’re getting better. That said, the fact that any of these things are 20 years old now is more than a little shocking. You might want to sit down. 1. SpongeBob SquarePants The animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants was created for Nickelodeon by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg.…
by Allison Baron A pair of wise men from the 1980s once said: “Be excellent to each other.” That is the heart of World Kindness Day, celebrated every November 13. The folks at National Today — the internet’s #1 authority on holidays — have their finger on the pulse of all the reasons to celebrate throughout the year.…
Babies. From diaper changes to midnight feedings to spit-up, they’re a full-time responsibility. However, one cannot deny that in spite of all this, babies do the most adorable things that would leave anyone feeling melted. There’s just something about their big shining eyes and button noses that draws us in and stirs our most tender…
Catherine and Robin Medovich’s son, Nicholas, is 28 years old and has an apartment in downtown Roanoke. That doesn’t sound too out-of-the-ordinary until you know one other detail about Nicholas: he’s autistic. Catherine, Robin, and Nicholas are the St. Vincent’s Home (SVH Services) Ambassador Family this year, representing and speaking out for the plethora of…
Spinosaurus. Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. Spinosaurus was the largest of all carnivorous dinosaurs, weighing the same as three buses. Spinosaurus was a fish eater that…
The Anthem Go Outside Festival (GO Fest), the annual celebration of everything outdoors, is this weekend! Check it out (admission is free!) from 6 p.m. on Friday, October 18 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 20 at River’s Edge Park South (a new location this year), 302 Wiley Drive SW, Roanoke, VA 24014. There are…
When it comes to being responsible consumers with the things we throw out, the second “R” can definitely be the most fun: REUSE! In our family of five, we tend to go through some toilet paper (and quick shout-out to the awesome whogivesacrap.org, our source for responsibly-sourced TP for more than a year now!). There…
