Those close to me are aware of my fondness for the term "flip", as it is often at the heart of whatever my strangely wired brain is thinking when approaching any situation. How do you flip your thinking on something around you to take a whole new...
Leadership sometimes calls leaders to make the tough call on critical issues, like when the kids can run around the community picking up M&M's, Snickers, and Milky Way bars. It's not the kind of thing we are used to fighting for, like health...
Weather can be your friend or foe in the farming business and the huge crop of 2013 apples shows just how sweet the apple business can be. Good growing conditions and the large expansion of 4,000 more trees a few years back, has County Line Orchard...
In the movie Field of Dreams there’s that famous saying, “If you build it they will come.” In the case of Northwest Indiana manufacturing it could be said, “If you build it -local buildings and businesses- and hire good staff, they will help...
I love to talk technology of any kind with friends, so when Tom Seeley of Pine Ford in La Porte began telling me about the Ford F150 with EcoBoost®Technology and what the new engine went through in testing, my curiosity was piqued. The whole premise...
The stream of story lines run through your head as another piece of Rick you remember hits your view since he passed Saturday at the Mudathlon. His friendly face, peppy or peppered depending on the day, purposeful energy, cut to the chase...
First, I want to thank the Lifers that make sure your stories, photos, events and good news come to life. They have grown in our four years to an army of good people on a mission to spread good. To everyone here: thank you for showing up. We asked...
“Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they are always glad you came.” I’m probably dating myself when mentioning the lyrics of this song from the popular 1980’s show Cheers, but I’ll take that risk if it means that I...
Here I am again at Industrial Revolution Eatery and Grille. I do my best thinking over food, and a tasty burger and fries from Industrial Revolution gives me a chance to catch up on some of the great stories that I come across. Recently, I had a...
Sometimes the lyrics of a song or the words from a great book or movie will run in your head as you are doing something that reminds you of that line. If you build it they will come was that line for me recently when meeting a guy that you know from...