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Indulging In Volunteering
Celebrate! My first week of taking one day off each week. That’s why I spent so much time this weekend working without getting paid. That may not sound right, but it was a good idea. Give me some free time … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, health care, Hearts and Hammers, housing, Land Trust, nature, photography, photos, Simple Living, volunteer, volunteering, WCLT, wealth, Whidbey, Whidbey Camano Land Trust
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My Money And My Life – Breakout
We whacked weeds, pulled old fencing out of bushes, posted some signs, and generally played around in our grubbies in the name of charitable land preservation. It is how I decided to spend a morning, and I didn’t even get … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, New Road Map, personal finance, poverty, volunteering, WCLT, wealth
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My Jobs Report Month 14
Fourteen. What an anniversary. Fourteen months of applying, hoping, re-evaluating, trying other venues, updating resumes, trying to remember passwords for dozens of job sites, and following leads with a blend of enthusiasm and restraint. What’s an aerospace engineer, consultant, entrepreneur, … Continue reading
The Joy Of Helping
Allow me to state the obvious. Helping is fun. Politics turns help into a pawn, and loads helping others with baggage by judging actions, motivations, incentives, and consequences. It’s almost dinner time and I’m going to eat late so I … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Dream. Invest. Live., gifting, housing, investing, personal finance, photos, politics, self publishing, teaching, unemployment, volunteering, wealth, Whidbey
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Renew New Road Map
My life is in transition, and therefore something must transit from my life. On Monday I formally resigned as Board Secretary of the New Road Map Foundation, a task I expected to last two years that I continued to … Continue reading
Social Media For Artists
What do you do when someone calls you a name? Sometimes it makes sense to wear it. Someone called me a facebooker extraordinaire. Cool. What in the cyber-world is that? I doubt they gave it much thought, but I like … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Charity, consulting, Facebook, Google+, klout, LinkedIn, MySpace, personal finance, philanthropy, social media, speaking, stocks, teaching, Twitter, volunteering, WordPress, xkcd
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Busy Busy Busy
How are you? Busy. What are you doing? Scrambling. Is that working for you? Stay tuned. Some small businesses I know are busier than they’ve ever been. Life is getting busy. Friends have less time to chat. I’m working almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, Charity, consulting, Coupeville, dance, dancing, Dismal Decade, entrepreneur, housing, investing, KWPA, Langley, Madrona, Madrona Workshop Troupe, photos, Port Townsend, Scotland, self publishing, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, video, volunteering, wealth, Whidbey, writing, YouTube
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Serendipity Aboard Adventuress
Well, that didn’t go according to plan, and that happens every time serendipity is involved. It was fun. Let’s do it again! Thursday evening I was on a tall ship under full sail, the boat heeled over to the gunwales, … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, Camano, Charity, conservation, consulting, dancing, Dream. Invest. Live., Financial Integrity, frugal, frugality, investing, Langley, New Road Map, personal finance, photos, Port Townsend, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, teaching, Vicki Robin, volunteering, WCLT, Whidbey, YMOYL
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Healthy Havens
One person, a small group, can make a big difference without spending a lot of money. A person on one side of a road is healing people, building community, and helping artists, including me. Across the street is an old … Continue reading
Show Up
The folks that show up may not have signed up. The folks that signed up may not show up. That explains the traffic on the dance floor last night. At the urging of others I reserved a table for dinner … Continue reading
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Tagged aerospace engineering, Art, Baileys Corner, Boeing, books, Freakonomics, persistence, photos, Retirement, Scatchet, volunteering
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