Growing Bolder Community

I walked to the lighthouse on my lunch hour today. One of the very best things about working in an office only five blocks from the Lake Michigan shore is...I'm only five blocks from the shore. My own perspective is colored by growing up in Chicago, but I suspect that anyone who has gone through childhood living near an ocean or one of the Great Lakes never loses that hunger for an expanse of...

As some of you may know, I am expecting my first child. Like any first-time mom-to-be, I'm filled with excitement, nervousness, sheer joy and of course, questions. Everyone in the world has an opinion about what I "absolutely should" and "absolutely should not" be doing. And that advice covers everything from exercise, food, products to buy and ways to decorate. But the one area that really...

Forgive me if you read this little story in one of my previous entries. There once was a dying Pharaoh who commanded his wise men to collect all the wisdom of all the ages into written form so the Pharaoh could read and know it before dying. On each of three attempts to further condense the information, the wise men failed since the content was still overwhelming. Finally, just before the...