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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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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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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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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Why?

The kitchen was bright, sunny, and messy with the preparations for Sunday’s roast beef dinner. The whole family would be home, and the young boy […]

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Perfection or Progress?

I grew up with “practice makes perfect”. My son came home from middle school with “practice makes progress”. I find this changed rendition much, much […]

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It’s So Beautiful, It Almost Looks Fake.

My mom was not a good cook, having been brought up in the time of “Mock Apple Pie” made with Ritz crackers and without apples […]

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Four Things We Must Change (to change the world)

We need to change some things if we want to change the world.  I see four distinct items in New York State public work delivery […]

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None of Us is an Expert.

Sometimes a moment in a video, a comment on social media, or a discussion in a team meeting is a catalyst for thought processes that […]

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