The Silver Lining News

 SLN was my mother's professional dream, a niche publication with a purpose that she pursued in the 1970s from her kitchen table. It was an era still living with the social reverberations of marriage bars, at least in her conservative Salt Lake City community.  
It was still common for a woman to sacrifice a career or, as in my mother's case,  an art scholarship at the University of Utah to marry and raise children.  Her choice is one reason I became a first-generation college graduate from the same University years later. 

When print publications gravitated to the World Wide Web (does anybody even use that term anymore?), Rebecca registered the silverliningnews.com domain. I had fun designing and redesigning digital branding logos and website styles for her over the years.  It's fun to look back on them now and see how the brand's appearance has evolved along with the project.  

When silverliningnews.com went live for the first time, a friend and I, like true shoe-leather reporters, cold-called some sources to produce a few articles for Rebecca's new online publication. The stories are included on today's SLN site, along with some public-domain videos about the era when the SLN idea was born. I'm both amazed and grateful to those people who gave us a story just on a concept alone.

With her SLN dream, my mother would tell me that my grandpa always told her, "If you build no castles in the air, you build no castles anywhere." Rebecca definitely accomplished building a castle in the air with SLN and more. Her dream inspired my education that underscores the work which lives on the SLN domain today.