Worth it
It’s the best thing I’ve ever done as a human. Worth all the sacrifice and change, and I’d do it again a hundred times over, given half a chance.
What to do?
After "What the heck?!" or other synonyms for "heck," we many of us are turning to "What to do?" Or we're just plain doing, in multiple directions, every day, with a nagging sense of disorientation.
25 Things I Learned at Creating Change in Philly
2,316 words | 10 min. read [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hanks the combo of parent + full-time employed person + I’m no longer crazy enough to go without sleep, my processing speed is like that of one of those old putty-colored, 128k Macintoshes, circa the mid-1980s. So! The notes below are what I finally compiled from
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a grumpy night
Thanks to the fortuitous location of the annual National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change conference, I find myself in Philadelphia, birthplace of American democracy, on the day this struggling, noble experiment will take arguably its greatest body blow. (Last night in a call to my kids I said that today democracy would
Children will listen
My sister-in-law, with whom I co-house, is a fundraiser for Democratic, pro-choice, women candidates. So naturally, elections in general are big deals in her house. And an election featuring the first-ever Democratic, pro-choice, woman presidential candidate? Well. She plastered an “I’m ready for Hillary!” sticker on the bumper of