Sing-a-long
Wow. I was driving to work this morning and I’m one of those channel changers of the radio stations way back to my teenage years. This morning wasn’t different except even though it’s Friday morning...
View ArticleYear End
Welcome to year end. Well the calendar tells us so. Year end at United Way is really June 30, 2013 and of course the Mayans had another idea. As I pause to reflect on the year and invite you to...
View ArticleA Real Parade
As I often share, we all walk with a story. Some of our stories are apparent and shared openly. Some cannot be. Life is about timing and I’ve had the privilege of meeting so many great people who...
View ArticleI Am Willing
I think about blogging every day and somehow I don’t find or make the time. People have even said; say the blog’s out of date. I know. Tonight, Sunday night, 10 pm, I want to share some things about...
View ArticleIllusion
I said I would blog more and then I faded quickly. Even so, I thought every night about blogging. I thought about what I would write and yet I didn’t sit down to do it. I had lunch one day last week...
View ArticleGood Things
This past summer, my niece, Devyn, interned with United Way for two months. I told her before she came it would be a real internship. She'd come to work when I came. She'd attend the meetings I...
View ArticleStreet Roots
I was in Portland recently and came out of a restaurant where a man sold me a copy of street roots. street roots is the newspaper that people who experience homelessness sell to make a little money....
View ArticleA hard day
Today is a hard day. I spent the fall away with one of my sisters because she was tremendously ill. She's quite on the mend and received the gift of life from a wonderful, generous, kind anonymous...
View ArticleKnot at the end of the rope
Recently a woman wandered in to our office. Her partner of 20 years was in the emergency room and will be having colon surgery. They both used to have jobs, a house, and health care. They got laid...
View ArticleThe Power of Circles
I had an amazing opportunity the other night to sit and listen to final projects from the SOU grantwriting class taught by Amy Belkin. Six students presented their work on topics like teaching young...
View ArticleThe Future Requires Collaboration?
There have been so many articles published lately espousing the importance of this new thing called collaborating? Seriously? Yep! Who knew it was new? There are lots of names for it. There's...
View ArticleChoices, Choices
We are faced each day with so many choices. And those of us in leadership positions are faced with ones that impact our organizations and more importantly the people we serve every day. I'm on a...
View ArticleCollaboration
Last week I had the privilege of being the first speaker at the Community Health Worker series at Rogue Community College. What an amazing line up they have over the series. Check it out! It’s free...
View ArticleSouthern Oregon Meth Project
Today I had the privilege of being in the Southern Oregon Meth Project update meeting. Congressman Walden and the US Attorney for Oregon attended. While we had so many victories with the Meth Task...
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Sunday Wondering/Wandering
It’s Sunday afternoon and my meanderings are coming out again. On Tuesday, I lost a loved one. He had a good long life and was clearly the measure of a life well lived. On Wednesday, I lost an...
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