Power of the Pivot

In my every day life, I am a fundraiser. Fundraisers are resilient people. Perhaps among the most resilient out there. Rarely is anything truly cut and dry, one-size-fits-all. And yet we succeed. Over the last year, I’ve learned about the Power of the Pivot. A roadblock is introduced and you find yourself looking at the…

No, the music these days doesn’t suck.

Sometimes the hardest thing for us to acknowledge is that, perhaps, we aren’t always the target audience for a particular bit of pop culture.  We assume there is no way something can be good/appreciated/successful without our approval.  And, if it is, it’s because people are idiots. There is no better evidence of this than the…

50 Meaningful Words

I’ve always had this dream of being a writer. I never really defined it beyond that. Magazine writer? Journalist? Novelist? Short story teller? Yes. So, two years ago, I paid the little money it took to sign up for a WordPress personal account and, on a whim, decided to to even pay for my own…