I’m Not Going to Zambia

I could write a lot posts entitled “I’m not going to [fill in the blank]” but this one has bigger significance. You see, my partners in good, Beth Whitman, Michelle Duffy, and Debbie Dubrow ARE going to Zambia. They’re going to do a ribbon cutting at one of the libraries our fundraiser — no, your …


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Like a Bee, I Tell Ya, Like a Bee.

1. Working. Somehow I landed a gig as the consulting content strategist for the Gates Foundation website redesign. It’s not particularly easy and they’re demanding, but it’s an amazing project to work on. The folks I spend time with at the Foundation are whip smart and quick witted and genuinely likeable. When I walk through …


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Writer’s Block

Even in writing about why I’m not writing about it, I feel like I am saying too much. Wait, let me back up a little bit and explain. In November, I went to Hawaii to spend a week on the Big Island learning music. I was also there to write, I was invited as an …


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There’s No “I” in Team

I’m not a team player. This is not the same as being a bad worker, I’m really good at the work I do. I deliver, and yeah, you don’t have to take my word for it. What I’m bad at is the other stuff around teamwork. The meetings, the  politics, the artificial niceties. As a …


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