Feed the Birds
Posted on Monday, December 26th, 2011
I thought dinosaurs were extinct, but guess what! I just found out birds are avian dinosaurs. COOL! I’m not that surprised; their fierceness reminds me of dinosaurs sometimes! A few weeks ago, we thought our [...]
continue readingReach Out, and Connect
Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
I spent Thanksgiving weekend with LucyKate in New York City. We took the Metro to Noho, walked through Soho, the Bowery, and Washington Square. After a ramen lunch in St. Mark’s, we heard people shouting [...]
continue readingGet Healthy
Posted on Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Driving to Florida for vacation, we listened to three books—Connected, Thrive, and Switch. I learned about all of them when I worked with Healthy Polk 2020 last summer. My task was to gather a group [...]
continue readingMind the Gap
Posted on Saturday, October 8th, 2011
“Mind the gap” was the theme of the John Friend yoga workshop I attended a couple weeks ago. The message is that what happens between, is what’s important. Between inhaling and exhaling. Between the busy-ness [...]
continue readingReflect on Service
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
I love service learning. It’s fun to help kids help people, in preschools, retirement communities, parks and gardens. Service learning is a respected way to get kids involved in their own educations.
But it’s not just [...]
Talk About Sex
Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Planned Parenthood once told me a woman is lucky if she has only a few unplanned pregnancies during her fertile years. I started menstruating when I was ten, and didn’t stop until I was 55. [...]
continue readingGo Out and Play!
Posted on Friday, September 16th, 2011
Watch my last “We’re Entrepreneurs, We Can Help” show recorded live on July 7, 2011. Ray Morley, Patti Petersen-Keys and I talk about our favorite things to do outdoors–how it feeds our inner kid, and [...]
continue readingPlant a Garden
Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011
I’m gardening with the Earth Heroes from Carver Community School‘s Boys and Girls Club this season. When I first saw how little these mostly second graders are, I thought there’s no way they can farm [...]
continue readingHonor Your Mother
Posted on Friday, April 8th, 2011
Procrastination? Grandiosity? Too many balls in the air? I had the idea at one point to post on “woman in history” each day last month. Now we are 8 days into April, and I am [...]
continue readingFight 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 [...]
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