: About Me

Need a writer with vast creative knowledge on everything from hair, gluten free living, celiac disease, support groups, to organic living?

I am an award winning Master Hair Colorist and professionally licensed Stylist by day since 1991. After winning awards for creative hair coloring and cutting, including the Wella Artististic Designing Award, I began teaching and imparting my experience and knowledge to others. Having been a certified teacher of continuing education for the N.C. State Board of Cosmetologists for 5 years, my knowledge in hair, skin, waxing, or spa services and products is vast.

In 2003 I formed, organized and executed the "New Beginnings" program for the ADA Jenkins Community Center in Cornelius, N.C. which gave people who were retrained and ready to rejoin the work force a total make over to help them prepare for interviewing.

Currently my life has taken a turn of events so to speak. I became coordinator of the non-profit group R.O.C.K.(Raising Our Celiac Kids) in the Charlotte Area after my daughter was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2008. Therefore, I come ready to share any extensive knowledge I have about gluten free living, Celiac Disease, organic living, and related issues.

R.O.C.K. Charlotte web site: www.glutenfreekidsrock.blogspot.com

And then subsequently became the event coordinator for the largest GlutenFree/Allergen Free event in Charlotte, N.C. Currently, my team and I are planning these events all over the Southeast of North America.

www.charlottegfexpo.blogspot.com

My writing has been published on blogs for food companies, featured in local publications, and on my own blogs about various topics.

http://blog.attunefoods.com/2010/05/tips-for-going-gluten-free-how-to-avoid-gluten-and-stay-healthy/

http://empoweredmommies.com/content/NikkiEverettInterview.aspx

Interview on Charlotte NPR:http://wfae.org/wfae/18_93_0.cfm?do=detail&id=12479

My passion is ...

Hair, music, gluten free organic cooking, and parenting.

I know too much about ...

Nothing yet, there's always room for learning more.

My parents always told me ...

Do your very best at whatever you do in life

My childhood ambition ...

1. Hair dresser 2. Mommy 3. Singer 4. Famous (well...doesn't every child?)

My favorite memory ...

Way too many to choose

Why I write ...

It is therapy for the tortured artistic mind.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Ever changing

My first job ...

My grandparents owned a restaurant, so everything from dishwasher to waitress.

My best moment ...

The moment my daughter was born.

My inspiration ...

All that passion makes for a lot of inspiration

Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Alternative music of the 90s: An overview

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In the late 80s, rock and roll’s heavier strains of metal and punk would give birth to a new genre and subculture alternative music. California had its big hair bands with monster ballads, New York had its subversive punk rock - But Seattle would become the alternative grunge capital of America. The Northwest Seattle area had coffee shop poets and vegans with a cause who easily led a generation weaned on MTV videos and Reaganomics into the craze of grunge. Instead of big hair, spandex pants and faux leather they would opt to wear flannel shirts, sport goatees, and listen to music wit...

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