My favorite thing this week is Aromatique! Everybody wants the smells of the holidays in their homes, and it’s definitely time to get in the spirit. In fact, my Christmas tree just went up last week! Aromatique definitely hooked me up with the best scents of the season. They sent me gingerbread potpourri, which…
November marks National Veterans and Military Families Month and includes the holiday of Veterans Day. AY About You thanks all of our veterans and their families for their selfless service to our country. By Kenneth Heard | Photos by Tony Milligan Harold Johnson used to sit on the wings of trainer airplanes parked…
By Dwain Hebda • Photos by Jordan Knight Neal Anderson’s life played out to be anything but ordinary, yet if you ask the 100-year-old veteran and businessman the secret to a long and happy journey on this earth, he’ll just shrug. “Be happy, have a good attitude, work hard and try to…
By Joe David Rice // Photos courtesy of Vanderbilt University Press Michael Ray Taylor probably won’t appreciate a description of him as a Renaissance Man. But this 61-year-old professor at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, chair of the Communications and Theatre Arts Department, is a solid candidate for this rare title. He studied under…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Jennifer L. Carson. Carson was born in Illinois, went to school in South Carolina and Louisiana, before moving to Little Rock where she finished her degree in sociology and anthropology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1996. Shortly after,…
Matt Stell has hit no. 1 – again. The Arkansas country music star has landed his second consecutive no. 1 single with his song “Everywhere But On.” The song hit the top of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay charts. According to CMT News, the single leapt from the no. 5 spot…
Katherine Blackmon Carroll is the owner and managing attorney of the Law Offices of Katherine E. Blackmon, which is a trauma-informed family law firm with an emphasis on helping clients navigate difficult times with empathy and expertise. Carroll earned her bachelor of arts from Southern Methodist University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of…
For this week’s pre-election edition of Hometown Heroes, AY About You sits down with Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter with Braver Angels. Chatham-Carpenter is a professor and department chair of applied communications at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is an organizer with Braver Angels. She considers both Arkansas and Oklahoma to be her…
Happy Friday! For this week’s Made in Arkansas, AY About You travels to Tammy Sue’s Critters, a small dairy goat farm that handmakes all-natural bath and body products. In 2005, Tammy Pope and her husband bought a farm. Located on the edges of North Little Rock, the farm did not become the center…
By Dustin Jayroe // Photos courtesy of Investigation Discovery The air is quiet in Poyen, a small town of fewer than 300 that sits to the southwest of Little Rock. Like many of the quaint subdivisions that make up the backbone of the Natural State, this one is humble, virtually untouched by the advancements of…
