How to avoid a harmful Thanksgiving
By Anne-Marie Albracht | November 13, 2012Thanksgiving is so close I can almost smell my mom’s garlic mashed potatoes and gravy steaming on the stove.
Thanksgiving is so close I can almost smell my mom’s garlic mashed potatoes and gravy steaming on the stove.
Perfect students. We all know them — I mean, it’s U.Va. There’s the student with a 3.7 GPA who is active in six different clubs and president of two of them and still manages to work out two hours a day and eat healthy.
On any given night it is estimated that roughly 672,000 Americans experience homelessness and hunger, and one of every eight children under the age of 12 will go to sleep hungry.
1) Hang out in Cabell Hall: Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like University buildings go a little overboard with their heat usage.
The Downtown Mall is one of Charlottesville’s great attractions. The brick-paved outdoor strip is adorned with stores and restaurants, such as the chic boutique Bittersweet, the high-end sushi spot Ten and the beloved ice cream shop Chaps.
I’ve never really been a birthday person. In the past, the event has been riddled with enough anxiety to make it generally unpleasant.
I’m apt to loathe politics. It all seems to be happening so far away — in some other time, on some other planet.
What’s your favorite item in the closet? I have this amazing grey sweater that’s chunky with braided material on the arms from some thrift store in Staunton.
Hauling a heavy backpack across Grounds can be difficult, especially when attempting to walk from class to class in 10 minutes.
At this point in my column-writing career, it becomes harder each week to think of a new and interesting topic.
Much like my current favorite fictional heroine Lady Mary Crawley of “Downton Abbey” fame, I am very lucky.
For the first several weeks of my stay in Lyon, Sundays were the dreaded day. In France, everything is closed on Sundays.
1 – Download the SelfControl App: This app allows you to block certain websites for a chosen amount of time.
Dear Edgar, I’m on day three of Halloween celebrations, and I can’t think of any more creative costume ideas.
If you decided to go to Marco and Luca on the Downtown Mall on any Thursday, Friday or Saturday night at 8 p.m.
My sister’s room is littered with Hemingway quotes, pictures, books. She drinks Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale because it’s named after one of Hemingway’s short stories — and it doesn’t hurt that it also has a pretty high ABV.
In a season full of political ads and fury, I’m going to endorse a different type of political situation.
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve fallen into a routine. I start my week early Monday morning, and I can’t wait for the clock to strike 5 o’clock on Thursday.
It is humanly impossible to gain the freshman 15 — or should I say first-year 15 — and I can prove it with a simple story.
Wahoo wow: University graduate James Eysenbach was recently named Cosmopolitan’s Bachelor of the Year for the state of Virginia.