Feeling the love
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 🥰❤️
Long way
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 […]
Following Lizzo’s lead
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 […]
Life’s so unfair… in my favor.
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 […]
Leaving on a jet plane
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 […]
A fork in the road to equity
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 […]
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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. ❤
What I miss, and what I missed
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 […]
Juneteenth celebrates freedom. Remember to ask “from whom and from what?”
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 […]
No big deal, we only got arrested as teens. White teens.
How. How!? How could I have mostly forgotten the time that I was with a carload of teen boys in upstate NY and we got pulled over and the driver got arrested for reckless driving and put in cuffs in the back of the cop car and we were all “asked” to follow them back […]