Reflections on sheltering in place during a public health crisis
Today is a quiet Sunday morning and the sunlight from the south facing windows are streaming in. There’s a watering can filled with water at my feet and a cup of tea getting cold on
Experimenting with photography and social change
Today is a quiet Sunday morning and the sunlight from the south facing windows are streaming in. There’s a watering can filled with water at my feet and a cup of tea getting cold on
Black girls have our own version of the cool girl. The cool black girl is urban but not hood. She’s down enough to use slang her white friends will want to poach, but won’t embarrass
I’m taking a three day workshop learning how to make Basic Bling at the Peters Valley School of Craft. Today’s lesson was a crash course in sawing, annealing and texturing. It’s challenging beyond belief. My
One afternoon after an uneventful dentist appointment instead of rushing to my car, I made a detour to the brookside park across the street. Being that school had let out, there were families with young
I’m trying to make sense of the recent shootings in Orlando, Baton Rouge, Dallas and St.Paul. At first I was in disbelief. Then I started to wonder if could afford to buy some land in
Nonprofit with Balls is my favorite workplace humor blog because, Vu, is able to capture the tone, spirit and love/hate relationship of working in the nonprofit sector. So when I saw his latest post about
Trickle-Down Community Engagement is a serious problem, and communities are getting exasperated. If we are to solve problems, we must stop thinking of communities as helpless children, and start trusting that people are the experts