Current Issue: August 2016
Check out this month's content from the magazine!Thank You Readers!
Thank you for for naming us one of the Best Free Publications in WNC every year since 2003!
Women Making Music: Playing Music is a Real Job
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/krisko-136x190.jpg
It’s been an honor writing this monthly feature called Women Making Music. Since September 2010 it’s been my pleasure to shine a spotlight on women and men in our area who personify the reason Asheville and the surrounding area’s music …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged music, women making music
Comments Off on Women Making Music: Playing Music is a Real Job
July 2015
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/FrontCover0715-TOC-177x190.jpg
All the content from the July 2015 “Music, Music, Music” issue!
Book Review: “Phase Line Green: The Battle for Huế, 1968” By Nicholas Warr
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/GreenLine-129x190.jpg
Fifteen years after returning from the Vietnam War, Nicholas Warr began writing Phase Line Green as a catharsis. Then, while researching, he discovered an equally compelling reason for recording his experiences: According to The combat after-action report and command chronology …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged book review
Comments Off on Book Review: “Phase Line Green: The Battle for Huế, 1968” By Nicholas Warr
Poetry: Frida
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5851262354_460c75830a_b-190x127.jpg
| By Emily Ross Hansen | There is a tall church, narrow and brick, the one we spent our summer nights, humid potlucks waiting for the crisp copper to breathe into the grey fellowship hall.
Just Get Up And Dance
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HookerPusher.jpg
| By Carollyn Lee Peerman | “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance,” said Dave Barry. What better way to shake the blues away than to get up and dance! Let the joy of dance …
Food For Thought: “Zoodles” & “Coodles”
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/food1-190x190.jpg
… and how to use all that Zucchini from the garden for a grain/gluten-free pasta alternative!! Do you have a spiralizer or a mandolin? They are fun and inexpensive kitchen gadgets for cutting vegetables in unique shapes for use in …
Mindfully Yours: Songs of Silence
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/JudithToy-190x149.jpg
“And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.” ~ Paul Simon There was a bird outside my window yesterday – wish I knew which one – with a ten-syllable song. Was it …
Poetry: Sunday Afternoons
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/foraging2-143x190.jpg
| By Julia Nunnaly Duncan | On Sunday afternoons in my grandmother’s cool front room my cousins and I took turns banging tunes on her Remington upright.
Meet Our Advertisers: Mary Jane Grigsby of Adesso Interior Design
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Grigsby-190x184.jpg
Mary Jane Grigsby is founder and owner of Adesso Interior Design, an award winning and widely published interior design firm based out of Fletcher, NC. Her credentials are many, including a Masters Degree in Interior Design, NCIDQ certification in the …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged meet our advertisers
Comments Off on Meet Our Advertisers: Mary Jane Grigsby of Adesso Interior Design
The Music We Make: A Book Review of “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Cloudatlas-120x190.jpg
| By Lauren Harr | This was a dangerous review to write because David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite books of all time. It’s complicated and, at times, confusing, but also brilliant and unforgettable. So, as I …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged book review, review
Comments Off on The Music We Make: A Book Review of “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell
Meet Our Advertisers: Michele Denise of Crystal Journeys
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Denise-190x190.jpg
Michele Shares Her Experiences Of The Miracle Man Known As JOHN OF GOD Michele Denise could not have imagined the amazing ways her life was about to change when, in 2004, she was first handed a book about John of …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged meet our advertisers
Comments Off on Meet Our Advertisers: Michele Denise of Crystal Journeys
The Journey of Geri Littlejohn: Flutemaker, Musician, Ceremonial Healer
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/geri-190x190.jpg
I met Geri Littlejohn several years back while on a quest to learn how to play the Native Flute; it seemed that the Universe had heard my heart’s request. As I sat on Geri’s couch one summer afternoon listening to …
Meet Our Advertisers: The One That Got Away
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dawnstarks-190x190.jpg
| Dawn Starks of Starks Financial | This is a love story. Of sorts. Years ago, I had a long, deeply satisfying relationship that was sometimes very challenging, and that lasted about ten years. It started when I was 12, …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged meet our advertisers
Comments Off on Meet Our Advertisers: The One That Got Away
Healthy Lifestyle With Edible Landscaping
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Riley-190x168.jpg
| By Megan Riley | After a day of planting the garden recently, I was heading for the house, looking forward to a hot shower, when I glanced at the trellis of sugar snap peas and remembered one other task …