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Apr.02.2009
Shouldn’t we treat our community volunteers as our society’s “untouchables”? I obviously don’t mean this in the mobster-thug sense of the word where hoodlums instill fear in the masses until the likes of Eliot Ness steps in to seek justice. Nor do I mean this in the reprehensible sense of the...
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Mar.25.2009
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to 800 supporters of Project Cornerstone, the Bay Area non-profit devoted to fostering 41 developmental assets in area youth. The organization is as near and dear to my heart as the subject they asked me to speak about—community building.
During these...
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Mar.22.2009
1. You don't want to repeat yourself, or to let the audience get bored (or fear that they've heard it all already). Bringing in some new talent to open the show gives the audience some new literary delights. Some of these emerging writers display dazzling gifts, both on the page and on stage.
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Mar.12.2009
It can be a challenge to get your first time visitors to return back to your blog/website, but it doesn't have to be. ‘Conquer All Obstacles‘ by evaluating your site with THIS CHECKLIST:
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Mar.10.2009
Obama won, he's burning the midnight whatever-people-burn-now-that-candles-are-deemed-bad-for-the-eyes and, despite what a few aging white men declare, he just might succeed. So why am I occasionally beset by just a wee hint of bitterness? Do any of those guys (yes, I do mean Republicans) take...
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Jan.28.2009
Back in the day, I had a diary. (No, children, we did not carve words into stone tablets in those days. Really.) So my original understanding of a blog was that it was just like a diary. Except on the computer, and open to anyone to read.
In the past year, I've found that a blog is very different....
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Jan.20.2009
Dear Friends:
You are my one saving grace within a confused, unfamiliar and coldly objective world. You light my heart when the flame is all but extinguished. I dream of you to save myself. You and only you have your hands upon my back. When I walk these streets I must put you in front of my eyes...
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Dec.20.2008
Time to put the year to bed. Tuck it in and say, "Nightie Night," sing a lullaby. I just turned in the final grades for my students, went Xmas shopping, had a dinner party with my very talented musician friends, song rocking this little Merriewood house, closing on the midnight hour...
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Dec.02.2008
Why I Hate Gigantic Stores, (a society of humanity)
I work in a grocery store that was built during the mid 1980s. 15 aisles. We know many of the customers by name. It's what once was called a "neighborhood" store. There is a sense of community.
Super-Wal...
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Nov.02.2008
A little over a month ago, my old friend Michelle McFee, mainstay in the Bay Area music and arts scene since Bob Dylan's San Francisco press conference back in 1965, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Michelle is deeply beloved in the Bay Area. I had an idea, and a nonprofit organisation...
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