Voices

Having an opinion, speaking your mind, telling it like it is...whatever you want to call it, at PortageLife it's all good news. There have been so many positive things that people have shared with us this past year, and rightly so because a lot of...

At a time when our community’s children should be looking ahead to snow angels, holiday vacations or a visit from Santa Claus, the recent tragedy in Connecticut has many of us looking back. While the holiday television classics, “Frosty the...

No question comes to me more commonly than “How do you stay so positive?” Those that know me well are keenly aware that Mr. Positive sure has more than a few moments of Captain Cynical and times where I fall prey to the “bitch first and ask...

Porter Regional Hospital has been voted by its employees “The Best Place to Work.” If you have ever visited Porter Regional Hospital, no doubt, you were greeted with a smile or a friendly hello from one of the volunteers; received a friendly...

Judge Julia Jent has asked me several times to attend her Veterans Court at the Porter County Annex in Portage. What an unbelievable experience to share with others. Upon arrival at 9 am, I really did not know what to expect. The friendly guards...

I talked about backup solutions once before, but I realized the other day that my preferences had changed since then, and there are some options out there I didn't always know about that have worked very well for me, so I wanted to revisit the idea...

Over the past four months I’ve set a group of 39 students out on an experiment. They are undergraduates at Indiana University Northwest in a 300-level marketing class who have a curriculum full of the four P’s, retailing, supply chain management...

“One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” –Chinese proverb Their stories usually begin with my simple question: what’s the good word?; what’s the hot topic of the day?;...

On Friday morning, millions of people will form insufferably long lines in many of the biggest retail chains in the world to get an extra 10, 15, or 50% off an item in a well-known phenomenon called "Black Friday". When you start to do the math,...

A diary is often considered to be a private place where one can share their truest thoughts, most candid observations, and what they really feel without worry about how it sounds, who might agree or disagree with your thinking, or whether it is...