Going Up?

As my current sidebar says, I’m on the board of WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network), and right now we’re in the difficult position of needing to raise a significant amount of money in a relatively short time.  I’m asking the folks I know to make donations if they can, asking my [...]

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And if I’m gay, what’s your point?

Catching up with Jay, I was happy to find this little history lesson on tap:

As a life-long ‘East Coast Cat” myself, I’m glad Jay chose to step up and share a little knowledge with Larry Johnson about Stonewall and ‘weakness’ … and in the process help us all remember that prejudice starts with ignorance.¹
I’m wondering [...]

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On the road again …

Yes, I’ve left town for another conference.  This one’s the National College Transitions Network shingdig in Rhode Island.  Today I was here to present as part of a panel.  Our session went well: more people than we expected and lots of questions and conversation.  We were only marginally prepared — two of our group of [...]

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Tired but Inspired

For the last two days, I’ve been at Changing the Odds, a conference co-sponsored by Harlem Children’s Zone and PolicyLink.  If I had talked to you about this last week, I’d have been a bit whiny, talking about how I didn’t really feel into it, how I was only going to go for part of [...]

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The perks of friendship.

What was I up to tonight?  I was here:

Koh is friends with my friend CJ (my partner in crime during last summer’s trip to Mexico), and because of that, he was kind enough to leave two tickets for me to tonight’s concert.  And while I don’t need any perks to be friends with CJ, this [...]

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