Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays. –E.B. White. The same could be said for people who blog. Last year was a shitty year. And in a way, I think I lost my voice. With a return to blogging, I am going to try to find […]
Articles
What’s the deal with the Berlin Wall in my coworking space?
The white words on the front of the wall spell out a name. A picture documenting the wall following the fall by Edward G. Murray. When you see the wall for the first time, you would process the heart and guess that the word on top is the end of the word Love! But it’s […]
The Triangle’s Creative Diversity Problem.
I grew up in what was, and what still is, the whitest county in the Baltimore-Washington Metro Region. And to this day every time I leave my North Carolina suburb and travel up to my hometown of Westminster, MD I am jarred by the complete and utter lack of cultural diversity. The question about how […]
Searching for Un-Rut Stuckers
Makers of Change are everywhere. They are the people you turn to when you get stuck in a rut. They are the ones who seem to “get it” when you talk about change. When everyone else runs away from things that are different and new, they run towards it. They are the people who can […]
Why the world needs you to become a catalyst.
Years ago I launched a digital workshop. My goal was to teach evaluators and researchers how to design, based on the challenges that evaluators who design would face. It was exactly how I found success, and built a following, during my own research and evaluation career. The workshop was filled with short courses, activities, and […]
Evaluating Christmas
Anyone else having a Christmas problem? I think there must be something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I might be getting presents and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I’m still not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel. Charlie Brown, you are […]