Blog Posts
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Sneezing is an Aerobic Exercise
Don’t let anyone tell you differently. These last five days have an eerily familiar hue. This time a year ago, I was laid up at Kaiser for an infection. Well, considering that, this week is a cakewalk. Just a really bad cold. Bad enough to sequester me to the living room, with Tikka Rose a…
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December Weekend Ask
I am going to make this Ask very short. For a few reasons. One, because I am very emotional about it, and don’t want my maudlin feelings to spill over onto the page. We are at the last week before Solstice, which is also one month before our two year mark, and the time that…
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The Four Tenets: Lean In
What does it look like to truly ‘Lean In’? IN preparing for this section of the series, I found myself really contemplating what ‘Lean In’ means. Sheryl Sandberg , in her book of the same name, didn’t invent the phrase, but she popularized it, and in so doing, created the working definition. It won’t work…
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The Four Tenets: An Introduction
There are four women I have the privilege of knowing who are everything to me. They are all very different women, but each of them touches me deeply. Each one of them carries knowledge and heart and wisdom and strength that I want inside of me. They have names they were born with, beautiful names…
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Coffee with Marlise: When we stand trial
You won’t see me commenting much if at all on Michael Vick. Seeing he is a black man, and he harmed dogs, I am absolutely positive he will face repurcussions to the full extent of the law, as well as above and beyond in his personal life. I also am 100% positive I cannot offer…
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The Shuttering of Feminist Media, a Phoenix Orange Tree, and The December Ask
So ok, I was doing what I usually do when I sit down to write, which is to focus on anything other than writing. Distractions and Diversions, which are among the Sirens of writers, called out to me with their tempting songs. I write from home, in my kitchen, or more often these days, at…
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On Giving Tuesday
Anyone who knows me also know my passion for sacrificial giving. You know that I feel that giving is one of those nonnegotiable elements of authentic and effective praxis. And you know that I do my very best to lead by example. So you would think that I would be over the moon about the…
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A Month To Make it- This December at Lace on Race
When I shared with you the difficult conversations I and the Lace on Race team were having about sustainability past the end of the year, I was serious. Serious about working on two tracks: both gearing up and doubling down, and also facing the real possibility of, even after all of this, closing up and…
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Deep Thanks–And We’ll Keep On Giving
Here in San Diego, it has been a grey quiet day. These days, with a Thanksgiving infused with truth that lays question to our national myths, and along with that truthtelling a certain sense of melancholy and ambivalence, it is hard to write, or even think, in the colorful ways of how we learned about…