Growing Bolder Community

Pssst - there’s a new movement afoot. Called “guerilla urbanism,” it involves citizens who change their cities without official approval. Consider Matt Tomasulo: Under cover of darkness, the 30-year-old placed 27 signs at intersections in Raleigh, NC, advising people how long it takes to walk from one destination to another. For example, one weatherproof vinyl sign reads, “It’s a 7...

This year, I've been very slack about exercising, and was disgusted with myself. I KNOW what I should be doing, I KNOW what I can do, and I also know that because I'm entirely alone, and 76 years old, I MUST keep up the exercise or lose mobility and independence. But still I didn't do it. I moved house in January, and that ended a three year period of intense uncertainty, because the...

If someone had told me two months ago that the cute puppy wriggling in my teenage son's arms would (1) bring my home reorganization to a screeching halt and (2) give me a bona fide case of whiplash, I might have thought twice. Or even three times.Oh, how hindsight is 20-20! Or, another way, how fools rush in where angels fear to tread!I just got back from being checked out at the clinic for...