Healthcare 101
It’s October, and we’re six days into the availability of healthcare exchanges and (not coincidentally) six days into the government shut down. (Sidebar: The Times ran a disturbing front page article today about the planning, jostling, and dollars leading up […]
Education of the Brain
I’ve had education of the brain on my brain lately. It is, in fact, a tangled and fascinating web to study, and it represents worlds colliding for me. I am authoring a paper for to present later this fall on […]
Hire a Ballerina. Or Two.
I don’t know Sarah Jukes, although I’m kind of in love with her, specifically in response to her recent article (re-blogged by The Partnership Movement, courtesy of Americans for the Arts). I spent a recent blog post talking about the […]
Business Tips for Designers
Yesterday my final blog post for We Blog Design went live. It is the fifth in a five-part series, which covers business tips for designers. In crafting the posts, I sought the insights of three of my favorite designers, Jim […]
A Bastille Day Revolution
Bastille Day is one of my favorite holidays, and not just because of the crepes, wine, cheeses, and beignets. Bastille Day was the day I and several colleagues chose for our own personal revolutions. We had been working on an […]
Crafting the Script for a (Financially) Fulfilling Life
Scene One: Stage lights rise on a conference room setting. The center table is full of playwrights, twelve of them, who have just completed a two-day financial literacy boot camp. The organizers of the event stand at the front of […]
The Most Delightful Surprises
I prepared to lead last week’s lunch at learn at the Hired Guns Academy by listing the six financial tools I wanted to address and adding a few notes on each. I touched on two of the three, and on […]
Shocking: Younger Adults Don’t Favor Online Taxes
It hardly seems necessary to run a poll to derive this fact: Younger adults are opposed to paying sales tax on their online purchases. Nevertheless, Gallup’s recent poll on the subject found just that. Many that fall into the nebulous […]
Arts in Memoriam
I love Memorial Day. It is one of my favorite holidays, and not simply because it marks the unofficial start of summer. I love spring, I love the fresh, clean air of the outdoors. I love a holiday bike ride. […]
Article in GuideStar on Financial Fraud
A huge thanks to GuideStar for publishing my article on tips for avoiding financial fraud in the non-profit world this month! This article was prompted by news out of Atlanta that the perpetrator of an embezzlement scheme (valued somewhere between […]
