Happy New Year! Most of us approach the New Year in celebration. Full of optimism, we adopt mantras, like ‘new year, new me.’ Looking back on our mistakes, failures and missed opportunities of the outgoing, we promise to enter the incoming year with eyes and arms open to whatever good is on our horizon. Sure, I have made mistakes this past year—foul-ups galore. But, as I cast my retrospective gaze on the past 365 days,…
Read MoreIt isn’t that I’m biased because I work for a locally owned company. I work for a locally owned company because I know how much local business do for their communities. The math on this is simple. When you buy locally, more of your money stays in your community. When you buy locally, you encourage start-ups. Buying local combats inequality; the difference in income between employees of small business is less than the difference at…
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Some lessons stick with you. I remember one summer afternoon in the car with my father and brother. Maybe I was in the 7th grade. Columbus Park Crossing was still new, and I had convinced my father to take me to Barnes & Noble. I left with a few new books and that excitement I still get when I leave any bookstore with something fresh to read. I didn’t notice the three young men walking…
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Voices of the Valley Children’s Chorus is fundraising for their July trip to England. Help these kids do great things abroad, especially because they do so many great things locally. On a recent evening, I visited Chipotle on Macon Road. The food is fine, but it’s certainly not one of my usual stops. I came because a friend told me about a local organization that was having a fundraiser. Half of my purchase would…
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Yes, we still need to talk about roundabouts. Welcome to Fall, ya’ll! While we wait for some cooler weather, I want to invite you to do two things. First and always foremost, enjoy this month’s magazine and all the fun and fascinating events we are so proud to promote. Second, let’s talk about a subject well-known to anyone who keeps up with the goings-on in Columbus. Let’s talk about roundabouts. Traffic circle. Road circle….
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I’m in school again, ya’ll, working on a master’s degree. A lot of people are back in school. Maybe you’re a teacher or a teacher’s spouse. Maybe you have school-aged children or adult children in college. If someone central to your life is in school, so are you. Even if you’re not in school, one way or the other, September always seems to bring with it an uptick in activity. Could be that the closing…
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Here you’ll find our mission statement. That’s the heart and soul of what I’ll elaborate here. But elaborate I must. I’m really excited about this magazine. The mission statement says that this magazine exists “because we who work on it believe in actively engaging with community improvement.” And that’s true. But that isn’t the story. This magazine exists because a few people kept talking about how great it would be for a magazine like this…
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