Mother’s Day

As Mother’s Day approaches this year, I can’t help but think of two mothers in the Reno community that we have lost recently: Sarah Herndon and Emily Reese, both women I met through Reno Moms Blog. I met Sarah when she came to my house to talk to me about …

By Tracey Gaffney, Nevada STEM Hub Mother’s Day is just around the corner — this Sunday, to be exact. And we here at STEM Hub know how hard you moms work with your kids to develop a passion for education and fun. Thank you for all that you do! We also …

Have you been to the Reno River Festival in recent years? It is amazing to me how this festival has grown and changed since it started 14 years ago. How do I know it was 14 years ago? Because I vividly remember working the inaugural event the weekend that my …

Blame: Assign responsibility for a fault or wrong, condemn, accuse, assign liability, indict, incriminate. We are all living on this very Earth because of our mothers. Every. Single. One. Of. Us. I know that can be hard to remember when it has taken until 2018 for the care standards to …

1) Don’t be consumed with the actual date you have your children on special occasions. Celebrate the occasion not the date. Holidays like Thanksgiving and Easter have changing dates annually. Allow yourself to let the other holidays dates or birthdays to be flexible also. This will save you lots of …

Meet April Kasper, owner and operator of Body Prints Inc. April is an artist, a friend, and an all-around beautiful soul.               Artist Statement I have been using the human body as a tool since 2004 and find never ending possibilities in this form …

In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked all of you to tell us why you are beautiful.  We had so many touching entries to this contest, and we are thankful to have all of you beautiful moms in the RMB Community. Our winners are: Most Likes: Brittany Sanchez Randomly Selected: …

Okay…traditions… Now I must admit that my family’s not really into traditional traditions. Neither my husband nor myself were raised with a lot of time-honored customs in our respective households. Yes, there was turkey on Thanksgiving; a plate of milk and cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve; fireworks on the …

Now that I’m in my early 40s, I find myself thinking (more than I care to admit) about how much I am like my mother. There was a time, and I swear it was last week, when I was young and headstrong and prided myself on being my mother’s polar …