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2019: A year of getting out of my comfort zone

Stories big and smallJanuary 24, 20201KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Happy (Lunar) New Year, ya rats! (Though this story is about 2019, the year of the pig.) As I look back on this year, a clear theme emerges: Getting out of my comfort zone! The TL;DR version — and this is a long post — is this: I moved three times in ten months;…

Stories without words

UncategorizedJanuary 9, 20201KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I love ballet. Love it. I didn't know I loved ballet until but a few years ago when I went to see Matthew Bourne's Cinderella at the Kennedy Center. And then I saw his rendition of Swan Lake. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. Well, raving about Matthew Bourne's ballets is one thing. (Go see one if you have a…

No wrong turns

SynchronicitiesDecember 31, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, while out driving, I thought I made a wrong turn. It was an easy fix and I knew what to do, but when I made the “wrong turn” this is what I saw: A complete and full, beautiful, vibrant rainbow... One of the most vibrant rainbows I’ve seen in years. #NoWrongTurns #JustLife #AlwaysSeeTheMagic Happy new…

Flat tire

My books ... and bitsNovember 14, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. My next ride is to ferry a woman from her home to her tutoring gig (her car has a flat tire) at a nearby learning academy. She’s thin, a mom of two, married, Black, mid-30s and delightfully smart. She’s getting her Master’s degree in education and plans…

Fire by the water

ExperiencesOctober 20, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Super lovely party in Annapolis last night. Cj and I have had, from the get-go and still do today, some sort of party-throwing magic going on: he's got the fabulous home, yard and waterfront space, and he's great at getting the party space set up and rallying friends to come help. I've got the hostessing…

Early days FB strategy and policy

Other WritingSeptember 30, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

For the near-ubiquity social media as a phenomenon, and most certainly a force, experiences today in 2022, it wasn't always this way. As a matter of fact, it wasn't always this way not too long ago. Like 2011, for the sake of this story. For This reason and That I found myself in the role of "social…

Got a Spare Million?

Other WritingSeptember 16, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

There are Dear John, Dear Friends of XYZ Cause and even Dear Abby letters, but have you ever seen a "Dear Millionaire" letter? I wrote this direct mail piece for a small-but-mighty residential youth program looking to run a capital campaign to build a new residence for the young men in their program. Got a Spare Million?…

Somewhere, over the rainbow

SynchronicitiesJuly 7, 2019834Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sometimes it’s the little moments in life, ja? Late this afternoon I was driving home from an event when I saw a sliver of a rainbow in the sky. Bright, colorful, but just a smidge. I needed to fill up my gas tank, so I pulled into a nearby station, ostensibly to get gas but, hopefully,…

Rockin’

ExperiencesJune 29, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Sometimes the stars just align. And the moon, full and risen, lights the night. As Life would have it, I got to see Trevor Hall and Nahko (neither of whom I'd heard of before attending the concerts) at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Colorado. It was lovely, epic, wonderful, exquisite. I was with a group, on…

We’ve always known the foundation was rot

Things I PonderJune 2, 20192KViews 0Likes 0Comments

To all of my GenX friends here, it’s time to become — to acknowledge ourselves as — leaders. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a leader in politics on an issue of local national or international concern; if you organize your daughters’ swim team annual picnic; or if you’re on your community’s Neighborhood Watch team . What matters is that…

Manifesting toads

Little BitsApril 10, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Well this was most certainly an odd moment. I was sitting outside late one evening, talking with a woman I'd recently met. She started telling me how much she was afraid of toads and how there was a toad in her backyard that would always come out when she'd go out back for a smoke. It…

Connecting childhood & generational development

GenerationsApril 8, 2019929Views 0Likes 0Comments

While there are many phases of childhood development, we can take the 0-21 years of childhood and divide them into chunks of three for interesting insights into how generations are formed. 0-7 years old Me & Me Explosive growth Physical, cognitive, emotional, linguistic, social etc. Massive downloads 8-14 years…