I think maybe I stumbled into a surprising way of doing something good? It’s small now, but it might be bigger with your help. No, don’t worry, this doesn’t end with a GoFundMe… but it is about money, and how we choose to spend it. Even when we think we’re saving it. Here’s the bottom […]
Dated 2/14, arrived today. I’m counting it as a belated Valentine. “This letter confirms that you are registered in Massachusetts as a Professional Fundraising Counselor.” I feel the love! #onwards 🥰❤️
I’ve been on this gift-to-myself sabbatical for over four months. Stepping into some consulting now, but honestly it’s a little scary to realize how challenging it is to fit even 10 hours of work per week into what already feels like a very full life. If you just rolled your eyes… please know, so did […]
Been meaning to do this ever since Lizzo gave her amazing People’s Choice speech a couple weeks ago. Went thru the list of links in this LA Times article and donated to every single one of the activists/organizations, except the big schools and the individual artists where I couldn’t find a way to do so […]
Dear friends, I struggle with gratitude. Not the part about seeing how my life is overflowing with love and beauty and abundance, though. Hopefully, if you know me at all, you know that I know these things, deep in my heart. I struggle because gratitude is an insufficient response to a world that is unjust […]
I wrote out what I wanted to say, but it was hard to read it through the mist that kept rising in my eyes. Anyway, this is what I tried to say at the wonderful goodbye lunch that my SCG colleagues put together for me this week, where they also gave me this weep-worthy album […]
Y’all, it has been a long long time since I felt ready to post again here. But last week, I was on a board committee call for an awesome nonprofit where I volunteer. We’re choosing a consultant to help structure our first-ever real fundraising campaign, and suddenly we had one of those Moments where there […]
Hello my friends. I am still writing, just keeping a lower profile for awhile. Feel free to contact me directly for updates if you know how to reach me, and I’ll see you back here soon. ❤
Back on the beach of my heart, where so much is the same as when my family first brought me here nearly 50 summers ago. One thing is missing, though: the wreck of the SS James Longstreet, perched decoratively on the horizon during the day, a fiery blaze every sunset, until it finally rusted away […]
Honoring Juneteenth with another step on my lifelong learning journey: I didn’t know that the belated news of freedom wasn’t really being proclaimed to enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. It was actually a warning from the Union Army “directed toward recalcitrant slaveholders,” as Isabel Wilkerson and others report. That is, the enslavers […]