Spring 2011

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Double-Sided Pencil

The only way to truly capture the moment is to live in it.

Old Aunt Jake

Time adds it's scars. A story about living thru difficult times to celebrate life in the good times and the bad.

Irish Travelogue: Exploring Western Ireland's Connemara Area

Irish Travelogue: Exploring Western Ireland's Connemara Area

Two companions share highlights of Ireland that expose a week packed with amazing people and beautiful places.

Ann Arbor is Michigan's Town With a Silver Lining

Ann Arbor is Michigan's Town With a Silver Lining

While much of Michigan struggles in a failing economy and faltering job market, it seems as if a crystal bubble protects Ann Arbor

Things That Go Rumph in the Night

Things That Go Rumph in the Night

Life and work of Jim Rumph, who created more than 300 different pieces of pottery including mugs, planters, cologne bottles, decanters, pipes, ashtrays and peculiar sculptures.

The Fire Inside

The Fire Inside

At its most basic, the world consists of two types of people: those who wait for life to happen around them, who live in fear of major life changes, such as losing their job or getting a divorce; and those who make life happen, who view potential devastations as a chance to start over. In her mid-50s, Anna McDermott is the second type, and that attitude got her to where she is today.

Worth Salvaging

Worth Salvaging

Gil Shapiro has spent his life searching through buildings and landmarks facing demolition in the sacred name and path of progress. Where others saw junk, Shapiro sees art.

The Truth Prospector

Some truths are self evident. Other truths are evidence of the self. Don Donovan believes most of us hide from real truth. “Instead of bending the truth to our life, we need to bend our life to the truth,” Donovan professes.

Predict a Future Worthy of Your Dreams

Best-selling author Matthew Kelly explains how believing in your success can improve your ability to achieve it.

For the Love of Fish

For the Love of Fish

One of the best fishermen on the island of Martha’s Vineyard stands at just over five feet tall. Casting her lines from the shore and alluding to fallen dreams of art school, she speaks about fishing like it’s a drug and about fish as art.

They're Big Because We Honor Them

They're Big Because We Honor Them

The American landscape is peppered with giant versions of mythical stories (the Trojan horse) and magnified, everyday objects (a basket, a baseball bat). Positive explores a few of these enormous oddities.

 Knotty Girls: One man’s love affair with women and wood

Knotty Girls: One man’s love affair with women and wood

A Gathering of Gigglical Proportions

A Gathering of Gigglical Proportions

Comic-Con International delivers the goods to the geeks who rule the world

Magic Amsterdam

Magic Amsterdam

A city of discovery teaches as it entertains