#ProgressNotPerfection

And practice makes progress. This blog is my story, a veritable workshop where I apprentice the original American lifestyle exemplified by Benjamin Franklin. This ‘lifestyle apprenticeship’ follows Franklin’s scientific approach to self-improvement. Envisioned as a great and extensive project that required the whole person to execute, Franklin counseled that the influence of all virtues, even in their imperfect state, made one a better and happier person. If the master is right, at his own urging:  “follow the Example and reap the Benefit.”

Hi, I’m Lori

a wife and mother of three, a domesticated engineer of sorts, transitioning to an empty-nester and dreaming of a 2nd Act; only, I could never have believed it would begin this way . . .