Growing Bolder Community

Very busy week at GB! We launched the beta site on Monday, now the real work starts. We're digging through the site, tweaking it all over the place, committed to making it better every day. Please tell us is you have any questions or concerns. Feedback from users is by far the best way to learn what's working and what is not. I am very excited to be working the video side of what is a very...

Republican Linda Upmeyer, a nurse practitioner, introduced her fellow legislators and their staff to new fitness habits through a program called “Lighten Up.” She asked each Iowa official to weigh in publicly which met, as you can imagine, with some resistance. Undaunted, she asked the Department of Public Health to bring a huge cart scale into the Capitol for mass weigh-ins of 371...

I sometimes wonder why often it is that others recognize things today that will be great memories for us in the future. Why are we at times so blind that we fail to perceive that what is happening in our life today will someday be recalled with warm feelings, with a sense of loss for what once was? I have suggested in the past that we are so busy living our lives that we fail to pause for a...

No Regrets "Go home and live your life, my friend," I heard the doctor say, "There's nothing we can do for you To make this go away. Today could be your very last - You could have yet ten years more. I cannot say when any one Will pass through heaven's door." So I went home and cried a bit ‘Til I decided not to pout- Because I know the truth of...