Happy Earth Day 2025

Happy Earth Day I've considered "Earth Day every day" for a long time. But it is also special to know that every year on April 22nd, it's officially celebrated. And though the news is challenging to follow right now, there are still good things … [Continue reading]

Neurodiversion 2025

These are a few of my Favorite Things I attended the first Neurodiversion 2025 "A Celebration of Unique Minds" conference. One hope I had when I traveled to Austin was to come home with an idea for a new newsletter. Through a series of conversations … [Continue reading]

Small Achievable Things – Take Action!

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Small Achievable Things This post ➡️ was my first post on Nextdoor.com - a social media site like Facebook organized by neighborhood. I believe Nextdoor.com is the best tool for local organizing that's ever existed. I use it to make my neighborhood … [Continue reading]

Build Your List

Create A Great Email List Would you like to do a better job of marketing your business/cause/non-profit/self/project? - Great! Here are some first steps to get started! This can be hard for some people - but it's worthwhile to go through this … [Continue reading]

Alignable

Alignable The other day I posted on Alignable: "I was on a local Smart Connect today for the Portland, Oregon area and we were discussing the current contest." That brought me to a comment that I hadn't realized I was going to make regarding the … [Continue reading]

How to make Parties go better for everyone – especially the host

Make Parties Go Better! If you want to enjoy parties better; help your host(s) enjoy their parties more; and generally improve all functions you attend, here are some ideas. First: you've been invited. If it's on FB - there is no need, ever, to … [Continue reading]