I was lucky enough to spend last Friday morning at a café in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Recently I’ve made a habit of spending Fridays there. I don’t live in San Francisco but I tend to have meetings in SF, which means the Ferry Building often becomes a bit of a home base for me. There’s [...]

When you’re looking for CSR work, there’s a very clear mantra that everyone repeats, day in and day out. It goes something like this:
“Real CSR jobs are few and far between. If you want to do CSR, go get a functional job within a big company and innovate from the inside out.”
In social change circles, [...]

Back in December, when my family was handing out holiday gifts, my mom gave me and my husband Dan an incredible present.
About ten years ago, my mom bought this etching of a couple, rowing their boat in fast waters.
At the time, she wasn’t quite sure why the painting spoke to her, but she saw it [...]

Have you ever heard of a book called Eats, Shoots and Leaves?
The premise of the book, by author Lynne Truss, is to “remind readers of the importance of punctuation.”
The book’s title comes from a (potentially bad) joke on punctuation:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and [...]