Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2000

About Lori Borgman

Lori Borgman is a newspaper columnist, author and speaker. Her newspaper column touches on a wide array of topics ranging from the truth about nagging to the hazards of upper arm flab. She is also the author of the popular essay, “The Death of Common Sense.”

Borgman received a columnist spot with The Indianapolis Star in 1991. Several years later, McClatchy-Tribune News Service began distributing her column throughout the United States and Canada. Her column is now distributed to more than 300 papers throughout the United States and Canada and has been published in newspapers from the mid-size Modesto Bee to the bustling metros Chicago Tribune and Miami Herald.

She is the author of four books, including humor books, “I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids, ”and “All Stressed Up and No Place to Go,” the humorous holiday novel “Catching Christmas,” as well as a gentle book on passing the faith to the next generation titled, “Pass the Faith, Please.”

Borgman is a frequent speaker at author lecture series, libraries, church groups, civic groups and women's retreats. She counts two of her greatest privileges to include addressing a Spouses of Congress event at the U.S. Capitol and delivering the commencement address to college graduates at the Indiana Women's Prison.