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What stories from the generations that proceeded you are the stories you hold close? What story your grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt or elderly neighbor stands out for you? How do these stories affect your daily life now?

Maybe I’ve read one too many “letters to my 16-year old self” or perhaps the pangs of regret have been nipping at the heels of my mortality as I feel time rushing by at double-time each year I age, but this struck me as a great theme for a Lets Blog Off when I found [...]

It’s a new year. Just like with every year, January brings with it the promise of a new way to go about doing things and a new way to look about life as you know it.

Life’s full of hidden costs and one of the most common is the one alluded to in our headline.

This LetsBlogOff theme is about taking a deeper second look at what appears to be an everyday common object or occurrence where something happens that makes you look at it in a different light. It could be an object, person or place. Or something entirely different.

So what’s a good Thanksgiving food memory for you? Tell us story about memorable Thanksgivings past or pass along a recipe or two. What’s on your table every year that makes your Thanksgiving yours?

Are you still working on the thing you wanted to be when you were a kid? Or maybe you are already all grown up? Still getting there? Did you start off with a plan? In short, the question of this Lets Blog Off is: what did you want to be when you grew up?

What makes home home to you? Is it your family? Your mailman? Your neighbors? Your stuff? Where’s home and what makes you feel like you fit?

During one of our endless staff meetings last week, we were discussing new Blog Off topics. One of our interns suggested that we take a big step backward and ask our Blog Off community what they look for when we announce a topic. What motivates someone to participate in a given Blog Off? Our intern [...]

What is this thing called privacy? A lot of people have ideas about what it is, but when you try to nail it down to one definition, it gets a bit slippery.