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Say No to Online Trading!

Say No to Online Trading!

You’ve seen the ads: Anyone could trade online! Sometimes it’s a talking baby, sometimes it’s an airplane flying through the air pulling a banner telling you to invest online. The baby shows you how easy it is to trade just with a click of your mouse, at $9.99 per...

The World’s a Stage: Broadway Graduation Party

The World’s a Stage: Broadway Graduation Party

I love the moment in time that a graduation party celebrates—the success of completing one chapter in your book, as well as the excitement of how you will write the next chapters. There’s so much to reflect upon and look forward to that it’s just no wonder people want...

Ele’s Place Seeking Volunteer Facilitators

Ele’s Place, a twenty-one-year-old healing center for grieving children and teens in Lansing and Ann Arbor, will open a center in Grand Rapids this spring. Ele’s Place seeks caring adults to volunteer as facilitators with its children’s support groups. People of...

Experience Outdoor Spaces with Belden Brick

Experience Outdoor Spaces with Belden Brick

For more than thirty years, Belden Brick and Supply has been the local leader in providing quality masonry, hardscape, and hearth products. As part of the Belden Brick family, we offer a unique advantage in experience and service as we gain knowledge firsthand from...

Getting Back to Writing Roots

When I first started with Serendipity, one of the things I was most excited about was getting back to my long lost love of the written word. I used to love writing; I loved writing poems, stories, nightly in my journal. There was something about it: Sometimes, I could...

Help Your Children Become Millionaires and NOT Need Social Security!

Help Your Children Become Millionaires and NOT Need Social Security!

Do you want to make a huge difference for your future descendants and their descendants? If so, do this exercise: Write down a list of your descendants, including the young babies.  If you want to change your world, start at home with your loved ones! You have...

Enroll Now Next Generation Talent

NextUP is a specialized leadership development program for high-potential women who are two to five years into their careers. The program is designed to help women overcome traditional roadblocks and achieve early and enduring success in a new assignment or job. ...

Local Sweet Tooth Cure

Local Sweet Tooth Cure

What do you get when you mix small business know-how with a sweet tooth—and sprinkle in a little family love? Rita Girl's Boutique Bakery, in downtown Grand Rapids. Founder Micki Ackerman and pastry chef Maria Tornga (aka Micki's niece) are whipping up treats...

Vein Solutions

Vein Solutions

Instead of reaching for those warm weather clothes to hit the trail or soak in the great outdoors, some women may forego comfort and adventure to keep their legs hidden due to spider veins and varicose veins. At Spectrum Health Medical Group VeinSolutions,...