Fight Poverty
Posted on Monday, March 28th, 2011
I recently purchased a Community Action Poverty Simulation Kit from Missouri Association for Community Action, and I’m doing my first program with it tomorrow. It took me about six months to make the decision to [...]
continue readingTurn the Radio On
Posted on Friday, February 25th, 2011
Well, actually check out “We’re Entrepreneurs. We Can Help,” and Learn About Social Marketing. And learn we did!
Ben Stone gave us a lovely compliment, “Two Baby Boomers (three actually counting our producer Anne Larson) doing an Internet [...]
Push the Edge
Posted on Thursday, February 17th, 2011
We just did our fifth, Internet-based radio show–We’re Entrepreneurs. We Can Help–Women on the Edge. For several months, I played around with the idea of a weekly radio show. Then last fall I asked my [...]
continue readingSalute the Sun
Posted on Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Yesterday I did 108 Sun Salutations with about a dozen other women at Shakti Yoga Shop. It was challenging, but went by surprisingly fast. One of the first things we asked was the significance of [...]
continue readingBe Inspired
Posted on Sunday, December 12th, 2010
I’m on a news break right now. All the bad news from around the world and around the nation was getting me down. It’s overwhelming when you are just one person, and you don’t see [...]
continue readingStipple Your Eggs
Posted on Saturday, December 11th, 2010
I was actually sad when I attended my last school conference nearly nine years ago. As my daughter grew up, each passing semester offered a new adventure. The year she changed her name, I introduced [...]
continue readingWrite You a River
Posted on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
The summer after my daughter LucyKate graduated from college, we wrote a daily Haiku. It was a really fun way to recap the day, or put our hopes and dreams out there for the universe. [...]
continue readingGo to the Library
Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
A major highlight of my growing up years was the weekly (Really? Weekly?) trip to the library. We had two–Covina and the Los Angeles County Library in West Des Moines. The LA Library opened when [...]
continue readingHelp Evaluate Chrysalis After-School
Posted on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
As it always does, the school year has somehow disappeared, with May catching me unprepared! It’s time to collect information about your work with the Chrysalis Foundation’s after-school girls’ groups so that we can report [...]
continue readingWeigh In
Posted on Friday, April 30th, 2010
I’ve been working with Culture Incorporated for about a year, and it’s been really exciting to watch their struggles and triumphs. Since they won a grant for “Bridging the Gap” in December, they’ve really been [...]
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