Luggage is My Life

I've got a Canadian college boasting

Breaking the national habit of humility. I'm so proud.

Give me a break, Mr. J.

Every time your actions asked you, "Stop being selfish," you answered, "Not ready."

We are not the sum of our actions. We are the sum of our selfish moments. Which can extend to lifetimes.

Life in this lane

What book MOST helped you?

LinkedIn Group: Readers of The Nonprofit Quarterly
Discussion: As a nonprofit leader, what book has helped you the most understand how to succeed in your role?

'I agree there are terrific books out there to help with our organizations, but to ensure that we are using "best practices" two of the best are Strategic Fund Development by Simone Joyaux and Keep Your Donors by Simone Joyaux & Tom Ahern. These are bibles for me.'

Simone is the Old Testament. I am the New Testament.

These are the T's that sold

These are the "statement shirts" people bought. See a pattern? Tell me! Can't read something? Oh, sweetheart, click the image. A bit fewer than 50% of them will GROW!!!

I don't do readings of my poems

I do visualizations.

Let's go to Pittsburgh

What she wore. The Mark Twain House, rendered by Legos; at our departure airport, Bradley, outside Hartford, CT. Landing in Pittsburgh, where dinosaurs once ruled, and an oil-and-gas boom lights up the future. To participate in the 2012 Emerging Philanthropy Conference, co-sponsored by the AFP of Western PA abd the Pittsburgh Planned Giving Council.

Things happen at Joyaux-Ahern University

Click any image to enlarge it and savor the fresh-baked doughnuts. L-r: new client, Mary-Kimberly, what donors want.

The person walking down a garden path

...should feel like a character. Moses parting the Red Sea. Stanley seeking Livingstone.

Report from the front lines: Pads of paper; Levenger's loses

Levenger's does NOT make the best notepad blocks. I try everything. Exhaustively. Notepad blocks are my basic tool, along with cooperative pens. The best pads are made by France's Rhodia. I can buy them in France at the local supermarket. Luxury Levenger's? In their previous version, the staples were good, but the perfs sucked. NOW, post-slight-redesign: the staples suck, but the perfs are loose. Levenger's lab rats? Put in some overtime, dears. RHODIA has ALL these key issues figured out, with a multifold cover. Which is so much better for us writer types.