APRIL 2024 MAGAZINE

By 1999, I had spent almost two decades as a manufacturer’s representative in the lawn & garden and hardware industry. It taught me many aspects of marketing and design in terms of packaging and promotion. It was then that I was going through a divorce from a 29-year marriage, which was the start of an early on-depression. In the following three years, my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer, my dad attempted suicide over the thought of...

Writers deal with editorial calendars, topics for articles, subjects for thought pieces. We try to plan ahead, storing paragraphs, sentences, resources, interviews; or an idea to follow up on or expand upon, thinking it might add that special something to make an article that much better.

With Destiny as the topic, numerous thoughts came to mind. We had a cat by that name, because it was destiny that she came into...

Roughly defined as a group of individuals between the ages of 18 and 34, the “Millennial” generation is now projected to surpass Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 national population projections.

Disillusioned by dwindling long-term employment options and dismal...