The beauty of nature is sometimes overwhelming.  Life starts with just a small seed that has fallen upon the earth.
The desolate seed grasps the soil with its roots, reaching for nutrients.  Nurtured by water alone, the seed is able to curiously spread its roots.  Searching every which way the roots rejoice in unison as they [...]

“Grace,” an upcoming book by Greenleaf Book Company, was written by sixteen-year-old cancer survivor, Melinda Marchiano. In this interview with TheSBON, Melinda shares secrets to the publishing industry for young authors, discusses her book, “Grace,” and the trials and successes of both writing and getting published.

Marina Stanger is a model from Croatia who shares fabulous secrets on how to get your hair as gorgeous as hers. Join us as she reveals these secrets to theSBON.

Just a skip away from downtown Santa Barbara is the Cheshire Cat Bed & Breakfast Inn.  Unlike most B&Bs, Cheshire Cat communicated with us 100% through email before our arrival and gave me a detailed receipt and itenerary all in our inbox.  Jack, the innkeeper, was very savvy with the computer equipment and also provided great [...]

Teal Noelle is a Chicago model who has joined the Lingerie Football League. She is determined to show that women can play football and be just as rough-and-tough as men. Read the full interview for more!

Being in health & fitness and having peers who are body builders and professional athletes, I’m no stranger to VitaMix. In 2009, many of these friends were raving about their VitaMix and how it would change my idea of blending altogether. So I decided to see what all the fuss was about and opted for the CIA Professional Series. Read my review of the blender here.

You might’ve heard of VitaMix when going through Costco, a distributor of the high end blender. Here, you may even have witnessed a demonstration of a man plopping an entire apple – core & all – into his machine to see it whipped and splayed into a million pieces.

Join us as we interview Tiffany A. Jackson, a model from Las Vegas who tells some interesting facts about herself.

Learn beauty secrets from the Asian model, Xanny. From facial scrubs to meal plans, Xanny tells us about her life as a model in Bangkok, Thailand.

Of course everyone knows about the Iphone and you either want one or have one, but did you know about what is already being used in Asia and what we can expect for 2010? There are some contenders with smaller marketing budgets that might just make you go behind the back of your trusty Mac.

The next generartion of cell phones should see 32 gigs of storage space as a minimum, HD quality playback and recording of videos, an 8.0 MP camera that will make you want to leave your other camera at home, an extremely responsive touchscreen with the pinch feature from iPhone, a music database that you can subscribe to with your contract, an fm tuner, GPS integration as a basic feature, and lastly an open-source application database that is community driven and open source.

This article has cell phones with all of these features. See which is right for you.

TheSBON conducted an interview with model Niki Ghazian, a former FHM girl who currently plays in the Lingerie Football League for the Los Angeles Temptation, models swimsuits, and attends law school.