White Privilege – Part 1
Many of you know of my previous work as an internal diversity consultant in a conservative Fortune 50 company. Few concepts moved me as deeply during my training as the concept of “white privilege”. Having grown up in a predominately white environment in NW Ohio, I was all too aware as a child of how [...]
A question of agenda
I began this post a couple of days ago and I must admit, it’s toned down a bit. The original title was,”Are you fuckin’ kidding me?” I’ve grown a bit. =========================================================== The last thing I want to get into is a political debate. My new mantra is “I allow others their experience” because quite frankly, [...]
Fear Can’t Put Dreams to Sleep
Tonight, I watched with tears in my eyes as Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination for president. I cried for a lot of reasons. But mostly because on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s famous “I have a dream” speech, a man of color, a bi-racial man at that, has a [...]
Change you can believe in
In two days, I will finally walk away from my former life in another city. I started this blog as a way to begin to heal from the painful process of letting go of everything I’d spent years building. I’ve cried more tears, cursed “god” numerous times, and filled 3 full journals, so that I [...]
Focus, people, FOCUS
I was talking to a colleague in California yesterday who told me she’d just paid over $4/gal to fill up her car. Wow. She then began relating a story to me that she’d read that people are beginning to sell possessions in order to buy gas and groceries for their families. Wow. I’ve never been [...]
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