Cross-posted from Shareable Magazine. When I told my friends and family I would be traveling to Detroit to write about community resilience, I got the same reaction from everyone: Silence. Then, slowly, as if not to offend me, people would look at me very seriously and say things like, "Be very careful -- you never hear anything good about Detroit. Remember, you're a woman, you have more to lose from an attack than just your wallet." Frequently the conversation would move to the murder rate, or economic devastation, and a reminder that "desperate times make people do crazy things." My …