RAN hosted its bi-annual all-staff retreat earlier this week. I was curious as to what would happen since my first year with the org was dramatically bookended by a “very passionate” retreat after only my first day on the job, and an economic meltdown that yielded heavy, unsettling changes for many of my colleagues. I [...]
“I think I was, uh…always misunderstood.”
We got back from a four-day (and then some) whirlwind trip to Chicago, Thursday through Monday. As my mother said, it now seems like a dream…like we were never there. Nana seems much better. She was transferred to a rehab nursing facility where they’re attempting to help her become stronger again. She does a couple [...]
what’s she thinking in that photo? is she smiling? i think she’s smiling…or trying to for the sake of the photo my mother’s snapping with her cell phone…was the flash on? did it hurt her eyes? what’s she thinking? my nana. my dear, dear nana. our nana… she’s been in the hospital for nearly a [...]
for you: a thousand yellow balloons.xo,the little girls in sf
It’s January 5 – closer to the beginning of a new start than the end of it. Like a plethora of folk, I’ve got a handful of resolutions stowed away in me noggin, and only a couple that I’ve cared to share with peers. One of the latter is to write all fancy like with [...]