Now get the skills, make some friends, and create the world you want to live in. A couple weeks ago, I came across a Meetup for an organization launching its 2018 kickoff in Orlando for Girl Develop It (GDI). …

Wisdom and advice on the true potential for Women + Data Science The Women in Data Science conference comes once a year, in the spring. It has grown in stature and popularity across the globe every year since its inception in 2015. …

My son Alex left Austin, TX to go to college at Champlain University in Burlington, VT. After about a year, a pretty blonde caught his eye. The young woman, Katie, was quiet, yet pensive. He’d often see her reading sitting on a bench or by herself at a table. As…

I tremble as I write this. A middle-aged woman and her young, beautiful girls are busking on the edge of the grocery store parking lot across from my place on a cool August morning. She’s “playing” Perfect by Ed Sheeran. As I later discover, she’s not really playing the electric…

When we were in high school, my friend Mike tells me a group of neighborhood friends went to Seaside for Mike’s Senior “skip” day. The water was cold and there was a rip current. Three of my friends got pulled out that day. Mike and Donnie swear they died that…

I’ve been tracking along with the Finding Our Voices various campaigns in the state of Maine. This most recent art exhibit and poster program that has literally taken over the community in the small seaport town of Belfast, ME is the most impactful yet. Patricia McLean has doggedly continued…

I was addicted to Pippi Longstocking books as a child. She was my free spirit animal. I couldn’t check Pippi books out of the library fast…

In the summer of 2019, I had somewhat of an epiphany driving along a two-lane highway in rural South Dakota. The upshot of that moment was I made a decision to start a film company to back female filmmakers who were interested in telling the dark stories of female oppression…

Cheer Up Carla! Your Vote Absolutely Counts I was volunteering downtown at our fabulous Brown County Democratic Headquarters on Main Street Aberdeen and in walks Carla, looking a little forlorn. She asks me if she can get a Biden and a Dan Ahlers (our State Senator candidate) sign. …