Northwest Indiana: if you and your family enjoy Lakeshore Public Television and the great programming that comes with it, you should actually support the network through membership, sponsorship, auctions, and helping them spread the word about the...
It is incredibly easy, and quite fun at times, to get all wound up about people that are an absolute pain in the rear to interact with in your working life. Maybe they are small minded, argumentative, inflexible, ignorant, slow moving, grouchy, or...
Once spring finally decided to roll around this year, it allowed me and my family to get outside and enjoy the weather, work outside a bit, and do some general maintenance on our house and yard. As I started to work outside, I looked around and...
The premise behind what we do here is pretty darn simple really. Celebrate what you have, who you have, what you are, or just celebrate for the heck of it, as it is plain old more fun that thinking how crappy people or things can be at times. We all...
A funny, energetic, passionate, loving, artistic, and beautifully blunt force of nature was celebrated in a Memorial this past weekend when family, friends, and community came together for Paulette Fogle. After battling through an intense fight...
One morning around 9 a.m., back in 2010, I had three interactions with people, and each of them in their unique way called to mind the principle philosophy of our mission. We stress our core principles of “Local” and “Good” in a blatant,...
Could you share a quick comment about somebody in Portage that is doing something good? Adult, student, volunteer, coach, pastor, club, group? I am thinking there are some good people out there and I would like to hear about them. Thanks! Judy...
This morning I was driving to an early lunch at Blackbird Café with Jon Groth, who happens to be one of my favorite guys in Valpo for about a billion reasons. Mostly just because he's always nice and helpful no matter what he has going on, and...
In case you missed it, Betty White had an awesome monologue on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. For those of you that do not know the story of how she was selected to host SNL, it all started with a Facebook page that spread like wildfire and...
There is a great scene in the Tom Cruise movie where he passionately tells Cuba Gooding Jr (I swear I am not talking about this clip because he has good in his name – that is just awesome good luck), to Help Me, Help You. It is a funny and...