Yesterday I got myself well and truly lost in an area with no cell service. It’s okay. That was more or less the point. I started the morning by exploring around Lake Placid, scouting locations to view the next day’s eclipse. Then I went a little further afield, checking out a couple of villages ten […]
Oh my friends, my heart is so full. It’s been a year since this post, about pushing my investment advisors to “humor me” by centering my portfolio on my values rather than pure profit. I had my first annual investment performance check-in today, and I learned two crucial things: I have no idea how much […]
Fifteen years with no Nurn in the world. That’s what we called him. A silly, loving name for a silly, loving man. Dan Kalikow, 3/2/43-2/26/09. But of course it’s not true that there’s no Nurn left. There is so much of him in me – I see him often in my own face – but […]
I’m not a lawyer, and this isn’t legal advice, BUT: daaaang y’all, this morning’s YW Boston webinar on “Navigating DEI Challenges: Legal Insights for Moving Forward in the Face of Resistance” was fricking FIIIIIIRE. Sharing my quick takeaways here because I’m involved with at least 3 organizations that need this info and I bet you […]
My lovely friends. Most of you look pretty much like me and share my lived experience as a white-identified woman. Dude friends, you’ve got one less intersection with me, but most of us still have the bond of shared whiteness, and that’s some powerful stuff nevertheless. Plus, we’ve mostly all got so much else in […]
Listen up. I just hit my limit. One too many articles and conversations about funders and companies who are turning away from their “commitments” to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Because it’s too controversial, or because it’s “not working.” It’s soapbox time. Just for a minute. Here goes: Yes, it’s appropriate to recognize the backlash. It’s […]
A couple of weeks back, something beautiful happened to me on Facebook. A long-ago “friend” who was really only an acquaintance through my very-ex-husband reached out privately. “I’ve been reading what you write over the last two years and your writing has been meaningful to me,” she messaged. “I’d like some help on how to […]
Thanksgiving. I am so grateful for all the time I get to spend in the beauty of nature. And. My coffeewalk isn’t exactly “natural,” is it? I mean, sure, the trees are real. The chirping birds are real. The blue sky is real. The way the rising sun makes patterns through the branches and turns […]
Oh, my friends. Amazing, heart-filling news. This riverside path has helped to heal me. Slowly, literally step by step, for almost two years that I’ve walked it nearly every day with my travel mug of coffee… watched the waters flow and the leaves turn and the birds visit from the window of my first tiny […]
SCENE: Commuter bus to Logan Airport, Sunday 7:48 a.m., a couple dozen passengers and one Jovial Driver. He is an older gent, looks like Einstein with a crew cut. He’s been complaining entertainingly since we boarded. Massachusetts drivers! This bizarrely warm autumn! Unspecified politicians! His one-man show gradually turns into a two-hander with Tough Cookie, […]