by debidrecksler | May 12, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign
What If I Am Ugly? The question came to me quite a few years ago, in a moment of solitude. What if I am ugly? After all, beauty is all in the eye of the beholder, right? So it’s possible that some people might not find my face and body pleasing to behold. Or...
by debidrecksler | May 9, 2010 | Human Interest
For Brooke and Lauren, two Mothers living in different cities, Mother’s Day holds very special meaning. It’s a day to celebrate the joy of parenting two sisters, across many miles… but always close in heart. Brooke adopted her daughter, Sora in...
by debidrecksler | May 7, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign
“Blondes are noticed but redheads are never forgotten”…Unknown Redheads make up only 2% of the population. As a member of this minority group, I have learned to appreciate being unique. As a child, I remember all the sweet elderly ladies who would...
by debidrecksler | May 5, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign
Silver Hair? No! Colored Hair? No! Choose One! Silly me. I believed that by letting my hair return to its natural color (silver?) I would naturally progress along the Sage Woman’s path. This return-to-natural began a year ago, as I approached the big...
by debidrecksler | May 3, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign
When I started working on the Authentic Me Campaign, I had a goal…To redefine the word BEAUTY in this country. As a woman pushing 60, one of my concerns was the way society viewed my age group. I was annoyed at the messages I was receiving from the advertising...
by debidrecksler | Apr 30, 2010 | Human Interest
Your first love may not be the person you spend the rest of your life with, but the memory of that love stays with you forever. It is 1969 and I am sitting in the Miami Beach public library studying for a college exam. I look up and there is a young man across the...
by debidrecksler | Apr 28, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign, Human Interest
I am thirty-six years old and three months shy of my thirty-seventh birthday. I am a young man whose grey hair, life experience and old soul belie my age. I am a man who will not dye my hair and who will not hide my wrinkles or scars because in each lies a moment of...
by debidrecksler | Apr 26, 2010 | Human Interest
Sometimes in life, tragedy strikes and we are left picking up the pieces of our shattered lives. For weeks I have been thinking about Abbie Dorn, a beautiful young mother of triplets who was injured during the birth of her babies. Her husband divorced her and took the...
by debidrecksler | Apr 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
The other day, I had the pleasure of visiting the Grand Bohemian Hotel. I have friends coming up from Florida and wanted to give them a detailed description of one of Asheville’s newest hotels. From the moment I walked through the door, I was impressed! Right...
by debidrecksler | Apr 21, 2010 | Authentic Me Campaign
As we embark upon a new paradigm of thinking and functioning, I no longer watch television, read mainstream magazines, or keep up with “popular” culture. For too long, there has been a huge gap between what real consumers need and what is actually...
