Recently, I was in an REI store (a sporting goods, camping gear, travel equipment, and clothing store) and saw this sign in the hiking and climbing section of the store. As someone who enjoys hiking, I love to coddiwomple. Get up early . . .

While many United Ways proclaim that they are community impact organizations, they do not act like community impact organizations. If you want to create a culture of community impact at your United Way, then there are four tenets of community impact you need to be acting upon . . .

It was a comment from a United Way president last week that got me thinking – and worried. He said “Our COVID-19 relief fund has made our United Way . . ..”

Several years ago, a restaurant chain completely redesigned the outside of their restaurants. The restaurants weren’t out-of-date nor falling down, but restaurant managers explained that they made significant changes . . .

Recently, I caught the end of a televised University of Michigan football game. The Wolverines ended-up on the losing end of the score, and the television announcers were talking about . . .

In our part of southwest Michigan, you don’t need to drive very far to see a farm with silos next to the barn. The barns and silos that dot the rural southwest Michigan landscape look like they have been there forever, like the tallest oaks and maple trees.