Architect, camper, mom, knitter, recycler, community minded, love cats, not afraid of snakes or spiders, wife, love outdoors (ocean and Adirondacks especially), am highly amused and uplifted by good people, conversations, and books.

Excellence Begins with Engagement

I have mentioned, in past posts, the importance of language in our work to engage people, to connect systems to our goals, and to connect […]

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Nothing About Me, Without Me, is For Me

I googled this statement (title) to find out where it originated, because I find it to be one of the most influential quotes for my […]

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Game Night, the Serenity Prayer, and Advocacy in the Anthropocene.

My friends and family got together to go apple picking and play games yesterday. It was a bit drizzly, but warm as we over-loaded our bags […]

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A Fine Line

I struggle, nearly every day, to find the right place for the line that divides know-it-all lecturing from leadership. The line that divides aggressive bossiness […]

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Kool-aid

1978: Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people died, including 87 young children, when they drank Kool-aid laced with cyanide and other drugs upon the advice of […]

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Searching for Those Who Care.

Today, in the scant five-block walk to the grocery store, I saw a dozen or so popped latex balloons strewn on the sidewalk and adjacent […]

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What do We Want to be When We Grow Up?

We don’t have a technology problem, we have a people problem (John Boecker, 2018). By that I mean the people working within the existing systems […]

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Our Need for Nature

I realized as my son and I were hiking in the Adirondacks this last Friday that we spent a week planning, drove 2.5 hours each […]

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Equity or Equality?

This morning I encountered a very good example of equity versus equality, before I even had my morning coffee. It’s all about salami and cheese […]

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We Need to Close the Loop

I picked up new recycling bins a few days ago, as our bins have been totally mangled and broken by the pick-ups. Not to blame […]

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