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In Their Own Words: Henry Hughes

April 23, 2019

Homewood contract arborist and leader of the Centennial Tree Project Henry Hughes talks about the role trees play in making our community vibrant and beautiful.

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Will The Circle Be Unbroken

April 22, 2019

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, Dr. John Young seems more like a priest than a surgeon.

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Ketcham & Company

April 5, 2019

With 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.

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Dreams So Real

April 4, 2019

I’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.

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If you love something, set it free …

April 3, 2019

Everyone 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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In Her Own Words: Laruen Steele

April 3, 2019

Lauren 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.