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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
- Nov 27, 2013
- 3 min
A Mom’s Perspective on Affordable Healthcare
Thrive Editor Sarah Schroeder is a 32-year-old mother, wife, and writer. She writes the blog “Twinkle Toes and Ninja Boy,” a chronicle...
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Thrive Detroit
- Nov 17, 2013
- 2 min
School Environments Promoting Value?
This month’s article is on how I feel about a few issues in our schools. There are many problems that I feel needs to be fixed, but for...
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Thrive Detroit
- Sep 21, 2013
- 3 min
How Many Wrongs Make It Right?
We have heard it said that “two wrongs don’t make a right,”. Well the settings in which this plays out are countless. Most recently, we...
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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 15, 2013
- 3 min
Detroit’s Big Fix: An Open Letter to the Honorable Gary Brown
Dear Mr. Chief Compliance Officer: Detroiters really want the basics. They want their trash picked up, their street lights on in the...
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Thrive Detroit
- Jul 15, 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 3, 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 17, 2013
- 3 min
Apple Stock Continues to Slide after Disappointing Financial Report
Despite posting quarterly profits of $9.5 billion, impressive numbers by most standards, Apple’s stock continues to lose ground amidst...
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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
- May 3, 2013
- 2 min
Dr Sabrina Advice Column: Helping People with People
Dear Sabrina: I really need some help with my mess of a marriage. Let me begin by stating that I married my current husband to make my...
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Thrive Detroit
- Apr 22, 2013
- 1 min
Social Justice in a Real World
There is much to be said about the injustices prevalent in the world around us. The list is endless, with racial, economic, religious,...
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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
- Mar 1, 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
- Mar 1, 2013
- 3 min
Restorative Justice: Making Things Right
After reading the title of this article, one might ask, “What difference can restorative justice make?” In order to even approach such a...
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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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Thrive Detroit
- Dec 23, 2012
- 2 min
Wishes for Detroit: 2013 Was the Year When…
Like many of you, I am a believer in the power of positive words to set the mind on a positive trajectory and to create an atmosphere...
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Thrive Detroit
- Nov 13, 2012
- 4 min
Hope is the Constant
Like many of us, I spent the last months before the election with my heart in my throat, contemplating a future without Obama: a...
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Thrive Detroit
- Nov 12, 2012
- 2 min
The People Have Spoken—Diversity Matters
Years ago my best friend and I would engage in regular, intense debate about politics. At the time I was voting for both parties but...
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Thrive Detroit
- Nov 12, 2012
- 3 min
Holiday Gadget Guide 2012
Whether you live in a red state or a blue state, whether you are celebrating or sulking right now, one thing remains unchanged. The...
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