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Lex on the Beach: Change of Perspective

I went for a walk on the beach today. On a chilly January afternoon, I kicked off my shoes and let the cold sand fill the spaces between my toes. As I looked out toward a crystal clear ocean made of glass, a feeling of contentment washed over me. Totally happy to be in that moment, alive, and healthy. I filled my lungs with the salty ocean air and thought to myself, life is good.

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How to Donate Goods to Charity

Has the New Year inspired you to work on a new image? If so, make good use of the old and donate to a local charity.

Money:

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Colonel Olin Hogan, Phoenix City Coordinator of the Salvation Army, says that donating money is a good option because it is the most direct way to help to people in need. “They can use that money to buy what specifics they need at any time,” he says.

There are also a lot of different ways to give the money at convenience to the donor. One convenient way is to donate is online (

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JCL's Miracles: Widow Maker Foiled

They call the kind of heart attack that hit New River resident Keith Webb a widow maker. “That’s because it’s an extremely large heart attack,” said cardiologist Tri Nguyen, MD, director of Noninvasive Cardiology at John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital.

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Women’s Organizations in the Valley

Take it from the ladies of Destiny's Child, who sang the song “Independent Women”: female empowerment is motivating. These four female-focused organizations around the Valley will make you proud to be a woman.

NOW

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Are you looking for a female power group that pushes and demands social changes for the everyday woman? The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest female-driven group in the United States. Since 1966, NOW has pushed for female equality, fight harassment in the workplace, and end all abuse towards women. Change is what NOW is...

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Inspectress Gadget: Reasons not to Buy a Verizon iPhone

Twitter has been blowing up for months (years?) about Apple coming to Verizon, and I’ve secretly always been rooting for the rumors to be false. Why? I guess I just find droves of angry Verizon users funny, for some reason.

You’re a few years late.

So now, Apple fanboys on AT&T and Verizon have the opportunity to carry around shiny new iPhones. But believe it or not, Verizon users will still have reasons to complain. Lots of them.

Let’s examine, shall we?

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