According to LinkedIn, I’ve been doing my own thing, known affectionately as The Refined Story, for a year now. Who knew (besides LinkedIn, anyway) it had been that long? Now that I’ve made it this far, I suppose it’s a good time to reflect on what I’ve done, where I’ve been, and how it’s gone. […]
Annie Crawley didn’t grow up near an ocean. The Chicago native had Lake Michigan just a few miles from her home in the city’s working-class Northwest side, but the first time she put on a scuba suit, in her early 20s, something shifted inside her. Today the ocean is Crawley’s life. Given what she calls […]