Everyone has a favorite local business. The book store where they know your favorite genre. The cafe where the muffins are always perfect. The garden shop where hard-earned advice is…
Lia Tremblay is an Emmy-winning writer and editor who specializes in healthcare and science topics. She has written several articles for RFM, including reviews of local theatre productions. She lives in Colonial Heights with her husband and their son.
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay The latest children’s production at the historic Swift Creek Mill Theatre is a retelling of one of childhood’s most memorable tales. Young Jack, dispatched by…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay The latest production at Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Honky-Tonk Angels weaves its story through separate lives that eventually collide. Three women — a disgruntled housewife…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay The Sunshine Boys is the story of two aging vaudevillians, reluctantly reviving their act after more than a decade of stony silence. You might think a…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay You could say Irving Berlin wrote the soundtrack to America’s twentieth century. Everything from “White Christmas” to “God Bless America” flowed from the pen of this…
When you count your blessings this Thanksgiving, what will be on that list? For the more than 25,000 Americans who received a lifesaving transplant since last Turkey Day, the…
It’s something no parent should have to face.The death of a young child brings unprecedented grief on the heels of unprecedented joy.But some parents find relief in philanthropy, using the…
Preschoolers are world-famous for frequent and urgent bathroom trips. So in 2003, Bridget Gutzmer was only mildly concerned when her daughter Logan, then three years old, was making several bathroom…
Each year, as summer wraps up and store shelves fill with backpacks, lunchboxes and colorful new notebooks, American families take on a rite of passage: sending their children off to…
If you saw a woman standing in the grocery store about five years ago, squinting at labels and muttering to herself, that may have been Midlothian mom Laura Duke. “I…
