(Week 2 of 4 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Read week one’s post here. Read week three’s post here and week 4 here. There are far more qualified people in terms of “credentials” like an LSCW or counselor who have an actual background in social services to tell you how to help a friend who…
DetailsOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month This may be the first time I’m publicly talking about my boobs (except for the short stint doing Sophie Tucker jokes as a Bette Midler impersonator just after college). But I’m sure it’s not the first time others have discussed them. After all, I’ve been a DD since…
DetailsA Teaching-and-Learning culture is one in which knowledge and experience are shared in all directions, from young to old or old to young; where individuals draw on what they do and what they care about and teach it to those around them. All involved not only learn new skills and gain new knowledge, but…
DetailsI asked a male-millennial-something to take a picture of me at a recent event. I was merely closing another app before opening the camera when he starts giving multiple instructions, reaching over to tap things, and telling me which buttons to push as though it were my first time holding such a ‘newfangled doohickey.’ “Thank…
DetailsAs soon as I saw the plastic bag full of shoulder pads hanging in the closet, I grasped our shared humanity. Millennial colleagues who were with me on our recent JUF/TOV* trip to Puerto Rico to help with Hurricane Maria relief may not have even recognized them. After all, we were at a house with…
DetailsYou’re excited about your new logo! Be sure to ask your designer to deliver these things so that you can use it on all of your marketing.
DetailsGetting engagement without talking about engagment. More ideas for police engagement strategies and tactics to build trust with community.
DetailsI had a ridiculous amount of fun yesterday putting together a Lollapalooza playlist for my Aqua Bootcamp class. As I told the class, made up of mostly women and a few men ages 40+ to 80, “I don’t want you just to look good. I want you to be hip and cool, too!” I knew…
DetailsIf I asked about new technology two years ago, you would have lamented (or relished) diminishing face-to-face connections, with the growth of Facebook and LinkedIn. A year ago you would have cried (or celebrated) the intrusion of mobile devices into everyday life. Today you might tell me how you shout out loud (Hey, Alexa!) that…
DetailsCan Civil Discourse be saved? In the 1600’s New England Town hall meetings offered a space for all in the village to come together to have a say in local law. In the 1890’s Salons, made famous during the French Enlightenment, filled homes in Boston as a place for women and men to congregate for intellectual discourse.…
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