I had an unexpected reflection this week after interviewing for a strategic communications role. While technically I was the candidate, and honestly I should have been nervous because it was an opportunity I was ideally suited for, but it felt more like a strategy session. There was an easy exchange of ideas and thoughtful reflectionsContinue reading “Pattern Recognition Is My Superpower”
Category Archives: Errant Musings
When “Giving Back” Becomes Your Day Job
Salary for social respect. Competition for collaboration. Structure for stretch. Sounds good, right? I made the leap from corporate marketing and PR into nonprofit development five years ago. My fundraising experience to that point had mostly been as a volunteer, donor, and board member. I’ll admit, I had no idea how different it would feelContinue reading “When “Giving Back” Becomes Your Day Job”
Who Said 50 Was the Finish Line?
Taking on a big, unfamiliar challenge and seeing it through has been a powerful affirmation: I’m still growing, gaining strength, and building momentum. I’m showing up with more clarity, capacity, and drive than ever before.
A Year Containing Multitudes
It’s at the edges of waiting for life to happen that time seems to slow its cadence.
Bring it 2023. I am ready for you.
Being present and feeling gratitude got me through an incredibly tumultuous year. The simplest visual for what it feels like being a family of five with three teen daughters is a game of Whack a Mole – two down, one up, then three down and one up, one down and so on. Insert laughing andContinue reading “Bring it 2023. I am ready for you.”
Goodbye 16. You Won’t Be Missed.
Our daughter’s birthdays have always been occasion for an excess of enthusiasm and sentimentality as we enjoyed each “first” and “last” over these past eighteen years we have been parents. With three kids so close in age – less than four years separating our oldest and our youngest – we have truly done that andContinue reading “Goodbye 16. You Won’t Be Missed.”
Why I Won’t Be Celebrating Independence Day
This Independence Day feels like a thinly veiled joke. A wink wink among the Christian right and their ardent cronies. Their “pro-life” vision thinly wrapped in their convservative values around sex and marriage, deciding who has choice and agency and who does not. It is only when I fill out those intake forms at theContinue reading “Why I Won’t Be Celebrating Independence Day”
Dear Firstborn
Elke, To say that we are proud of the person you have become is an understatement. You are a joy and such a bright light in our lives. Although we have been honored to guide you and parent you for 18 years, the time has gone by much too fast. The sense of urgency toContinue reading “Dear Firstborn”
Thin-Slicing 20 Years
“I have ceded to my partner’s ability to relish and to appreciate life’s beauty as it unfolds.”
Social Justice for Everyone. Really
I have long identified social justice as a core value. There was never a “moment” of decision or clarity, it’s always been there, an integral part of who I am. Living my values has meant engaging with my whole heart in a multitude of roles – as a donor, an advocate, a volunteer and throughContinue reading “Social Justice for Everyone. Really”
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