With so many digital platforms to keep your memories in, you may wonder if it’s still worth your time to keep them in scrapbook journals. The answer is a definitive yes. Granted, scrapbooking may not be as popular as it once was, but there are plenty of things that are better off keeping in a…
By Gloria Bares, Author of A Bionic Woman, her book of memoirs On many Saturday mornings I sit with my grandmother, Mimi, on the porch outside her flat in Los Angeles, California, enjoying our favorite breakfast: fresh raspberries I call “garnets” dolloped with whipped cream and just a little cereal on top. This is…
By Martha J. Hartney, Esq. I have been an estate planner for nearly a decade. The word legacy is tossed around in my profession like candy. For years, I felt confused and concerned by the word. I didn’t understand why the hair on the back of my neck would stand up every time I heard…
By Laura A. Roser Early this year, I had the pleasure of interviewing a variety of business leaders. But I wasn’t interested in learning how they succeed in business. Instead, I asked them about how they find meaning, what kind of a difference they are making in the world, and what they would like their impact…
By Greg Doepke We continue to face many social and environmental problems in our local communities. These problems may, in varying degrees, include challenges of housing, jobs, poverty, healthcare, pollution, land management, waste disposal, and many others. In recent decades, multiple strategies were tried to solve these problems, but the problems persist. An increasing number of nonprofit 501c(3)s have struggled to address and…
By Greg McKeown The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. —Lin Yutang The basic value proposition of Essentialism is only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. What about…
By C. Michelle Bryan, Federal Protective Service (FPS) Director for Resource Management When we think of leaving a legacy, we are often drawn to thoughts of the tangible, such as homes, precious mementos valued because of the rich history, or money and investments in hopes of ensuring financial stability. While all those things are incredibly…
By Phil Cubeta Hitting Your Legacy Home Run As we get a little older, certain questions resonate in a new way. Where is home for me? Can I go home again? As far as I have gone, did I ever leave? What did I inherit and what must I pass on? To what traditions was…
By Chris Gibbons Let’s start with a New Year’s admission: self-reflection is hard. Each of us believes we know ourselves, that we have a sense for the nature of our loved ones, and that we’ve identified a firmly formed picture of right and wrong. Perhaps above all else, each of us believes we are rational people…
By Lynette M. Smith We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. —Dakota proverb After a food-poisoning incident made it clear that my then–95-year-old father-in-law could no longer live alone, my husband and I helped him move in with us. Over the next year, in Dad’s various day trips to his home, he would…
