The problems that Rotary International members tackle in the world and the local communities can seem massive and overwhelming, until you realize that Rotary has 1.2 million members fighting for good, piece by piece, moment by moment, person by person ( Read more... )

But this older blog post is about another international project that my local Rotary club participated in when we fundraised for, fitted and delivered wheelchairs to Panama. We also went to Belize and Costa Rica. I'm posting this because it's good to remember two things. The first is that people matter. That there are stories beneath statistics and ( Read more... )

I think that possibly I will only write about things that happen at the grocery store from now on because it's kind of more interesting than the things that happen at my house.

My house is like a bat cave.

Seriously. There is no light in the living room. It's so bad that sometimes I step out into the driveway and realize that not only do my socks ( Read more... )

This begins at the 2017 Rotary International Regional Leaders Training Institute back in February and ends today.


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It is me, Spartacus, Carrie's dog. I have taken over the blog. Why? Why? You ask.

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I wrote this poem a long time ago back when I wrote poems all the time. I don't do that anymore. And this is my #metoo response about a subject I've talked about/written about for ages, yet every time I write about it again - I seem only able to do so in poem form, and it takes away my ability to write/think about anything else for an entire day ( Read more... )

The next morning in Mexico, I’m sitting on the balcony waiting for Em to wake up. The vendors have only just started setting up their tables on the narrow beach front that’s owned by the Mexican government and not the hotels. There are trays of sunglasses, bracelets made of yarn, wooden carvings, tourist trinkets. There are women selling blankets ( Read more... )

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You know how you get song lyrics in your head? Today, I have this Ralph Ellison quote stuck in my…

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