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Thrive Detroit
- Jun 20, 2020
- 3 min
United States of Apocalypse
By Delphia Simmons I read somewhere that the word apocalypse does not mean final destruction and undoing of all things as I had thought,...
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Thrive Detroit
- Dec 21, 2019
- 3 min
I, Thou, and Homelessness
Delphia Simmons, Editor This Summer I was invited to give a Fall lecture about homelessness. I would be lecturing a group of about 30...
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Thrive Detroit
- Apr 22, 2019
- 3 min
The Misnomer of Affordable Housing in Detroit
By Delphia Simmons, Editor I cringe when I read or hear the “A-word” uttered in Detroit these days, especially in relationship to...
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Thrive Detroit
- Aug 19, 2015
- 4 min
Intentionally Unintentional
By Delphia Simmons I strive to maintain a perspective that has a lens on multiple angles of Detroit’s revitalization. I live, work, and...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jul 5, 2015
- 3 min
Impound, Impact, Innovation
Depending on whose report you dig into, my neighborhood is made up of a significant number of individuals and families in the lower...
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Thrive Detroit
- Mar 6, 2015
- 4 min
Gold, Silver, Furniture
The sign in the store window was too large to miss: “Trade Your Gold and Silver for Furniture”. By the time I pulled into my driveway...
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Thrive Detroit
- Oct 5, 2014
- 3 min
Opportunity is the Fabric of Innovation
Recently I was asked to answer the question: How can cities better connect all residents to economic opportunity? It’s been a few months...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jul 7, 2014
- 3 min
Detroit Districts Rallying to Form Community Advisory Councils by Deadline
Despite having a shorter-than-anticipated window of time, every one of the seven newly formed City Council Districts is working to meet...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jun 12, 2014
- 3 min
Father’s Day
I check my watch, weighing the time. Just enough minutes to get in my morning walk before I have to shower and leave to get my mother....
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Thrive Detroit
- May 7, 2014
- 4 min
The Girl with the Pink Backpack
It was one of those spring-like, end-of-winter Saturdays mild enough to tease many of us out of our sealed homes for relief from the...
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Thrive Detroit
- Mar 25, 2014
- 2 min
Here Comes the Sun, La-da-da-da…
Transitioning out of this year’s extremely harsh winter has me singing in anticipation of the spring and summer sun. The “polar vortex”...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jan 20, 2014
- 2 min
What Will You Do and When Will You Do it?
I first heard that question in a “People Encouraging People,” or PEP Group. PEP Groups are small informal gatherings of about 8-10 people...
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Thrive Detroit
- Nov 27, 2013
- 2 min
Testament to Friendship
My phone rang at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. It was one of those rainy weekends that make releasing the bedcovers difficult. But I was...
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Thrive Detroit
- Sep 21, 2013
- 4 min
The Future of Begging and Panhandling
Note: I prefer not to attach labels to individuals based upon their current negative behaviors. At any given moment, an individual can...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jul 14, 2013
- 3 min
A Modern Scarlet Letter: Marks and Stigma of Mental Illness
We, all of us, have relatives, friends, coworkers or others in our network who are suffering or have suffered from some form of illness...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jun 2, 2013
- 3 min
If This, Then That: Logical Conclusions of a Broken Criminal Justice System
In my wanderings around the internet, I came upon an online service called IFTTT (if this then that). If you haven’t heard of it, you...
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Thrive Detroit
- May 4, 2013
- 2 min
Wading Into the Morass of a Broken Criminal Justice System
Ever since I decided to research the mechanics of our prison system, I have been somewhat stuck. I have had to reexamine some of my own...
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Thrive Detroit
- Apr 1, 2013
- 2 min
Justice Scaled
Recently I learned of something even more disturbing than our former mayor’s pending indictment and imprisonment for 24 federal charges,...
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Thrive Detroit
- Feb 28, 2013
- 3 min
Proposed Park Closures an opportunity to think outside of the sandbox
Like me, you’ve probably kept up with the plans to lease Belle Isle to the State of Michigan as a cost saving measure for the City. ...
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Thrive Detroit
- Feb 2, 2013
- 2 min
Outliers
My husband recently told me about a workplace conversation he was a part of that included a woefully ignorant woman in her fifties. I...
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