What is a personal experience or best practice you have seen around community engagement and law enforcement? Chicago police officers were riding horseback through our neighborhood the other day, stopping and talking to children, after they had been at a community event at a local church. We thought what a great way to build…
DetailsDennis from Fort Lauderdale asks… “So what’s the deal with twitter? I just don’t get it. I know how to use it, but I just don’t find it interesting, there’s too many posts to keep up with. I never managed to understand that app.” First, Dennis, you are smart to ask. At this point in…
DetailsLee Bey’s Facebook musings are a mix of City sights and sounds: “The neighbor on the south end of my block is de-weeding her front yard by hand–while wearing a pair of strappy heels. She got (and returned) the nod of respect as I walked by”; With a bit of what he’s watching: “I started…
Details“Wow…what a way to blow away years of stereotypes in one evening! Everyone should do this,” my 16 year old son said as we got into the car. He was talking about the Niagara Foundation’s Abraham’s Tent program. The motto of the program is “Open Doors, Open Minds and Open Hearts.” Starting in Ramadan,…
DetailsSomewhere between the roasted chicken and the chocolate chip cookies, we abolished global poverty and achieved world peace. And Ange found a wedding dress. It was an amazing dinner. Intercultural Parenting: Values in Action You would think with us already being a Brazilian/USAmerican and Jewish/non-Jewish family, that embracing values of intercultural and interfaith appreciation would…
DetailsSure, in a business meeting it’s always great to get “3rd party endorsement,” e.g. someone else backing you up and arguing your point, but out in the big, vast, world, if you don’t tell someone you’ve done something, then who knows that you’ve done it? Now you have shows that are about making the show;…
DetailsAuthor Farai Chideya coined the term “Episodic Career” to describe Millennials in 2016. Morry Fiddler, PhD, Managing Member, President of Insight Medical Genetics, has been living it since he earned his PhD in Human Genetics in 1976. Insight Medical Genetics is a “comprehensive genetic testing practice. It provides personalized counseling and guidance for patients and referring providers,” for…
DetailsI’m not sure which has made this question more pressing for me…an imminent holiday weekend away with my mom in Manhattan (as in my mom and me, tied at the hip, same hotel room…for four days) or my upcoming 30th wedding anniversary to my husband. My mom and I are presumably from the same culture…
DetailsEvery time I get my weekly Adweek magazine (in print, by mail), my heart does little palpitations. On the good side, Anna Wintour, Vogue Magazine’s Editor in Chief, is on the cover this week, labeled a Brand Visionary at 67. An objectively labeled trendsetter at 67! On the inside cover, however, is this little…
DetailsThis past March, one week before his 89th birthday, author and grandparenting activist Jerry Witkovsky was honored with Jerry Witkovsky Day in the Village of Deerfield. (Read about it here in the Chicago Tribune/Deerfield Review). This is the same Jerry Witkovsky who self-published a book in 2013, has over 1200 followers on Facebook and Twitter…
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