ONEN Yard Sale Reflections The ONEN Yard Sale is a great annual neighborhood event. Maybe you’ll be a seller; maybe you’ll be among the hundreds of people who walk through the neighborhood looking for deals. Maybe you’ll find just the thing for just the right price. And maybe, the yard sale event—pedestrian in so many ways—will …
Sam’s Story Sam Aker is an 11 year old boy, soon to be 12, who lives with his parents, Dean and Kathy, and fraternal twin siblings in the Old North End. When he was four years old he was diagnosed with Sanfilippo Syndrome, a rare and progressive neurological disease which is terminal. One of Sam’s …
I am the only girl and the middle child between two boys. Perhaps not surprisingly, a popular exhortation around my childhood home was “Bring out the best in each other!” My mom pulled out this little gem whenever we used our creative genius for evil rather than good; annoying and antagonizing one another rather than …
Technically, I’m a high school drop-out. So when I graduated from Colorado College in 1994, it was my first time to “walk.” I’m originally from Colorado; born and bred until I was a few days over 13 and my family picked up and moved to Quito Ecuador. My dad is a doctor with a yen …