Celebrating Mother’s Day
A card, a box of candy or a simple card. It’s the love that counts when honoring moms and kids of any age can do it. Be assured that the honoring of…
Author: Rick Good
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader's money, real estate, and business coverage.
Wallpaper is back and better than before
The past few decades have been bleak for the wallpaper business. During the second half of the 20th century, the wallpaper and coverings industry lost…
Ask the Expert: What does it mean to lock in a rate?
That is a subject you might be hearing more about in coming months, with interest rates rising instead of dropping as they have in the past few years….
Boomers sell; millennials buy
Homeownership is alive and well across all generations, a new reports finds, with trends shaking out as you might expect: More younger people are buying…
The pajama backlash
From at least the 1920s, the trend in dressing has gone one way: more casual and comfortable. According to USA Today, public dressing in the first part of…
The sublime and eternal sandwich
According to the French writer Pierre-Jean Grosley in his 1770 account of his year in London, the sandwich was born when John Montagu, the Earl of…
What to wear in the virtual office
Lots of people love working from home. The environment is comfortable, there are fewer distractions (even though the dog is always welcome), and nobody…
The most expensive photo ever?
This month, a photo taken in 1924 is set to go to auction and it is believed to be the highest-ever estimated value for a photograph. The black-and-white…
On the question of skydiving ants
You see an ant on a countertop. You brush it off to the floor. Does it die? Heck, no. That ant comes back to annoy you again and again. How far could it…
Oxford University coat of arms
Ancient universities and famed graduates The oldest universities in the West were established during the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300 A.D.) and their…