Grazia Clarkson is the Public Relations and Band Manager of The Jive Aces, a highly entertaining British Jive and Swing band, known for their high energy Jump Jive music. In 2012, they performed in the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent and followed that up with a royal performance at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for the Queen of England and both the Olympic and Paralympic Celebrations. They have performed in thirty countries. Grazia is from a little town in Italy called, Minervino Murge, but she calls England her home. She graciously took time from her busy travel schedule (en route to…
Author: Aleisha Gore
Two weeks ago, I underwent a procedure called, LEEP (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure), where sections of the cervix are cut and burned in order to remove precancerous cells. I did not even know this procedure existed before learning of my dysplasia (abnormal cells) on my cervix. Had I not done this procedure, had I waited or even disregarded the abnormal pap results as inconsequential, these abnormal cells could have become tumors. The procedure was painless, I was awake, and not at all sleepy. The doctor injected a anesthetic solution, lidocaine, into my cervix and then with a tool which looked…
Ladies, the most important thing you can do for yourselves and for your families is to make sure you’re regularly checking your breasts for lumps and also getting your annual pap smear. This doesn’t just apply to women in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Once, a female is of reproductive age and menstruating, it should become standard practice to see a doctor and get annual checkups. Even when a woman is having a change of life, she needs to continue to receive regular well-woman’s care. Anything which seems odd is feels strange to you, please talk to your doctor about.…
I had the killer good fortune to attend the Real Housewives of Horror Finale Party and Screening on Wednesday at one of their very cool shooting locations, a bar which used to be hospital and has a haunted second floor. First we screened all the wickedly wonderful episodes and then I talked with the cast, producers and director about their awesome experience creating the show. As the gut-busting brainchild of Brea Grant and Kevin Pereira, the Real Housewives of Horror serves up its comedy hot and hilarious, just like its housewives: Heather, the perfect virgin housewife hostess, Barbara Dawn, the…
I’m going to be very blatantly honest. We may not make it. I have faith, I know Chocolate is Not Better than Sex is a winner, but I am going to outline here, what I think I did wrong so that you have a better chance of making it. I will also outline what I’m certain I did right plus some interesting anomalies that happened with our Kickstarter campaign which one would think would mean success. Mistake #1: Day 1 was not planned to the letter. In the majority of Kickstarter or any fundraising campaigns that I have seen which…