This Saturday, January 18th, at 10:00 AM at Waterfront Park, I'll be volunteering at the fourth annual Women's March San Diego, a non-partisan, women-led movement unified around eight key principles: civil rights, disability rights, ending violence, environmental justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA rights, reproductive rights, and worker's rights. And I'll be there in the spirit of… Continue reading Forward March
Winter solstice arrives Sunday at 4:19 Coordinated Universal Time, which is 8:19 PM tonight, here on my home slice of the planet. At the time of writing, I'm a few hours away from the point at which the Northern Hemisphere will be leaning its furthest away from the sun for the year. The beginning of… Continue reading The longest night
If you encountered someone in the grocery store checkout line struggling to communicate or to make their purchase, would you try to help? Would you know how to help? If you saw a person in your neighborhood who appeared confused or disoriented, would you intervene? What would you say? And how would you say it?… Continue reading Let’s be Friends
On this day twenty years ago, I became a marathoner. A runner since childhood, I'd tried training for my first marathon in my early twenties, but got injured and had to stop. By the time that hamstring was fully rehabbed I was knee-deep in grad school and holding down two jobs, but I was anxious… Continue reading Cheers to twenty years
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