Take Advantage & Be Active

It is our position that our community provides us with an abundance of opportunities to get outside and be active. Whether it’s walking, running, hiking, biking, rollerblading, canoeing, fishing or going to Cool Creek Park to fly a kite with your kids, take advantage of the plethora of amenities that we have available right in our backyard.

Start with a stroll along the Monon Greenway; one of the Midwest’s most highly acclaimed rail-trails.  Sign up for the One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon, the second largest Mini-Marathon in the world.  Visit the Zionsville based Tuxedo Brothers Event Management website (at www.tuxbro.com) to check out what event is going on each weekend throughout the year. 

InterNetworking - Don’t be fear of the technology!

Those of us from the generations that came after the formation and widely accepted use of the Internet and, perhaps even more importantly, the ubiquitous nature of cell phone camera, are often relieved by the fact that our past remains largely just that - our past. We can happily recreate (or create, if necessary) a view of the past that is of our own intention. Junior asks what the college years presented and Mom omits recanting the story of the lost weekend on sorority walkout to the University of Florida - before she met Dad. Today's kids are not going to have that luxury.

With seemingly every detail of one's credit, personal status and recent history already online, they will grow into adulthood with much of their lives somewhere recorded and ready for display just a click away. Privacy experts are already warning college-aged folks to resist the temptation to post even the most seemingly innocuous personal information on their MySpace page - or better yet avoid having such a thing at all. But, like most new-fangled inventions that we older generations attempt to keep the kiddies from sampling, social networking sites are among the fastest growing anywhere on the Web. So what does all of this data mean to the next generation?

Let's Keep It Friendly

These days there is a rule book to ensure that everyone plays nice on the cul-de-sac - a sort of handbook for the new urbanites. Life is ordered and details are sorted out by extensive covenants. We live in communities where another is worrying about the details of neighborly interaction. Some attorney hired by some developer directed by some experience has shielded us from it.

But as befalls all of us to whom life seems easy, life would teach me much more about these neighborhood compacts that I ever hoped that I would know. Through a set of circumstances too Byzantine and uninteresting to share, I found myself serving on the board of our neighborhood association. This construct of modern life carries with it the intrigue of the Roman Senate and the reward of a defeated gladiator.