Pick a Starting Place
I run in foot races. Every race has a starting line. Some can be very ornate with big blown-up arches. If you run the same race year after year, you…
Read MoreAssume yet!
Every day, we walk through life carrying a list of assumptions. Most of them are things we don’t even think about and would have trouble listing. If someone asked, “What…
Read MoreLook for the Gifts
I am a lifelong learner. I participated in an enrichment program once, and one of the requirements was to not read for one week. I didn’t make it past breakfast…
Read MoreChallenge the Assumptions
Way back in 1985 I became an executive director of a community living department. While I was with that department, we tripled the size of supported independent living, started up…
Read MoreEveryone has a Legacy
There is a very famous line: you can’t take it with you. I think about that line when I see some people using their money for good while they are…
Read MoreSome Old-Fashioned Practices Need to Come Back
I grew up in a really big family. My Grandmother had ten children. All but one of her children had children leading to more than four dozen grandchildren. Then the…
Read MoreGetting Out of Your Comfort Zone is Required
If someone wants to take a picture with me, I will always say yes. But if you ask me to take my picture by myself, I approach that with dread.…
Read MoreInnovation is Our Middle Name
I Want to Start a Movement: Innovation is Our Middle Name On June 6, 1926, Philadelphia hosted the Second World Fair, otherwise known as the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, to celebrate…
Read MoreI Want to Start a Movement: There is Work Left to be Done.
In high school, I hated history. They wanted you to memorize dates. WHY? I finally appreciated the subject in grad school when I learned that the origin of worker compensation…
Read MoreCan Means You Will
As a kid, my dad had sayings that he would use every day. One of those was, “can’t means you won’t.” And for someone whose first language wasn’t English, that…
Read MoreThere is a place for all of us
I have developed a guilty pleasure of watching Reels. They show up for just a few minutes of entertainment. A few have come in recently around the differences in language.…
Read MoreInclusion is the way
Growing up, I was taught that segregation was a sad reality—where someone with a foreign accent wasn’t easily accepted, where a person of a different faith was seen as less…
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