The Story of Generational Firefighter Heathe Watkins
Story and Photos by Janie Shelswell-White There is a cottage on Beech Street, built...
Read MoreStory and Photos by Janie Shelswell-White There is a cottage on Beech Street, built...
Read MoreBy Cara D. Clark Photos by Cara D. Clark and Marc Bondarenko Trés Taylor is a revolutionary...
Read MoreBy Kari Kampakis My oldest daughter Ella is a high school senior set to graduate this...
Read MoreKatherine Cobbs delivers a new cookbook Story by Lee Hurley and photos by Becky Luigart-Stayner...
Read MoreBy Walden Knott Photos by Janie Shelswell White My Scouting journey began by tagging...
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Read MoreDr. John Young, an orthopedic surgeon at Precision Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, is not at all the man I expected to meet when I agreed to write about him for Portico. Self-effacing and quick to spread the credit for his success around to his wife, his parents, his sisters and brothers, his colleagues, and his staff, he seems more like a priest than a surgeon.
Read MoreTen things I learned from Don Cafaro, Mountain Brook Senior Arborist
Read MoreThe Homewood High School Boys Varsity Soccer team defeated Hoover High School (ranked #1 in 7A) to win the Metro Tournament. Senior Matthew Henderson scored a goal late in the second half to send the 1-1 game into overtime
Read MoreWith more than a decade of renovation experience under their belts and dozens of projects to their name, Jama and Geoffrey Ketcham got their start after successfully flipping a Homewood property in 2006.
Read MoreI’m in an undisclosed location (Sorry: No narcs) listening to six dudes who aren’t supposed to be in a rock band being the best rock band in the world—well, at least in a 30-mile radius—at 5 pm on a dreary football Sunday in January.
Read MoreLauren Steele is a Mississippi girl and licensed attorney who moved to Homewood when her husband, Dr. David Steele, came to UAB to complete a fellowship. Lauren started her blog, LC-Steele, in law school as a way to face her frustration with social media. Today, she has almost 200,000 Instagram (lc_steele) followers and devoted blog readers.
Read MoreEveryone knows that old saying. Let go of the thing you love. If it’s meant to be yours, it will eventually come back to you. Advice well-heeded in the case of old high school boyfriends and the baby squirrel my brothers once tried to make into a household pet. Advice that is much harder to bear, however, when it comes to the thing we love above all else: our children.
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