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Does Your Nail Art Reflect Your Passions?
Does your nail art reflect your passions? Time and budget permitting, I love heading to the salon and having my nails done. Honestly, I’m not very coordinated in painting them myself. But, I’ve never had my nails painted in something other than a color or if I’m feeling really fancy, the classic white French tip.
Continue Reading#LOVEVA: See the LOVE in Virginia
Y’all know “Virginia is for lovers,” right? Launched in 1969, “Virginia is for lovers” is one of the most brilliant tourism slogans EVER. The Virginia Tourism Corporation, the state tourism office, knows “love is at heart of every Virginia vacation” and has created LOVEwork, a 16 feet wide by 7 feet tall artwork of the word “LOVE.” Think of it as a piece of tangible love.
Continue Reading#NASASocial: PUMA Golf Experimenting with Space Technology
Fore! If you’re looking for a way to improve your golf slice, someday down the road PUMA Golf may have the solution and they’ll have space technology to thank. This is so cool!
I learned about this during the #SpaceX4 #NASASocial I attended last week. One of the research projects carried up to the International Space Station (ISS) by the SpaceX CRS-4 resupply mission on Sept. 21 will study plating metal with the goal of manufacturing a better golf club.
Continue ReadingTV Show Casting to Give Missed Travel Connections a Second Chance at Love
If you’ve ever connected with someone during your travels, felt a spark, then lost touch and down the road wondered “what if,” listen up. A major cable network series is NOW casting for a TV show to give missed travel connections a second chance at love.
Continue ReadingBook Review: Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
Thank you, Nellie Bennett. Because of you I’m now dreaming of grabbing a floor-length skirt layered with ruffles and heading off to Spain to learn flamenco. Before reading “Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love” the idea never crossed my mind but because you so eloquently shared your sacrifices to follow your passion to learn authentic flamenco, I want to run away with gypsies, too.
Continue ReadingAmelia Rose Earhart Plans Around the World Flight in June 2014
Amelia Rose Earhart is preparing to take flight in June 2014 to accomplish what her namesake (but no relation), Amelia Mary Earhart, didn’t in 1937, an around-the-world flight.
Continue ReadingInfographic: Science Behind a Happy Relationship
Turns out, there is a science behind a happy relationship and the website Happify demonstrates it in this groovy infographic.
Continue ReadingFrom World Leaders to Everyday Heroes, Photographer Platon Tells the Untold Stories
Platon, the London-born photographer, was in Sarasota, Fla., as part of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series.
Continue ReadingNew App Weather 2020 Predicts No Snow for Big Game
Traveling to New York for Super Bowl XLVIII? Lucky you! A new weather app called Weather 2020 predicts a snow-free game – and the prediction was announced in early January.
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