Creating coverage lowers ambient temperatures — By Sabriga Turgon Urban heat islands are the areas inside cities that create, capture, and contain the heat generated by the assorted machinations of urban life: buildings, machinery, exhaust emissions, waste, dense populations. But urban areas rich with trees help gather rainwater, sending it to the watershed deep below. “…[C]onsumers…

Telling your business origin story helps bring to life the quieter parts of who you were when you started and who you are now. — I’ve never done a storytelling workshop until this week when I started Story Skills for Small Biz with Taji Torrilhon. It’s already surprised me: “When someone asks you what you do, tell them what you love.” People who want to know about you don’t care about your resume. But they…

You just need to stand by one for your body to be better — By Sabriga Turgon Yikes, the weather is hot — quick, go stand in the shade of a tree! Shade, climbing, and tree houses are what many people think of as the best benefits of nearby trees. What we don’t realize is that some of the relaxation we feel is because…

It takes 3 drafts to expose your manuscript’s gold — By Sabriga Turgon Writing a book is the best and worst of times. Your creativity is on dripping off your fingertips, your concepts are throbbing to come alive, you can see your book sitting on the bookstore shelves tantalizing readers to taste its allure. And then there are the aching…

A WARM PLACE FOR PARENTS — The year was 1974. First Lady Hillary Clinton’s famous phrase, “It takes a village” had not yet infiltrated the nation with the idea that being part of a connected community is vital to health and peace. Yet one mother — feeling stressed, alone, and slowly going…

It’s effective, simple, and fast We’ve all seen pictures of the red COVID virus with its protein spikes — those dastardly things that attach to our cells, allowing the virus to invade and reproduce so quickly it overwhelms our immune system and makes us sick…or worse. Neutralizing antibodies, says Dr…

Lose them to other people’s memories, or preserve them forever? When my father died in his bed, nearly all of his small family were with him in his bedroom where we’d set up the folding chairs. There we sat, five or six people of various ages, staring at a shrunken and wasted man who was dying of cancer at only…

Put your link in the comments LinkedIn — the go-to site for business connections — has a dirty little secret: If you put an external link in the body of your post, LI will limit its distribution. Damn. So how do you guide all your LinkedIn readers to your site…

Part 1: The First Big Question Five years ago, I received an email from our family’s most loving couple: “We’re going to begin foster-to-adopt classes. Anyone who wants to help us raise this child is welcome, and we will take care of you when you get old.” I’d just crossed…