On the final day of the American Citizens Summit, I got what I signed up for — a tool for speaking and listening across a divide. That tool is Living Room Conversations. The Living Room Conversations website has a simple process for staging a … Continue reading →
I’ve been listening to the sessions of the American Citizens Summit this week: My commitment to attend Some inspirational quotes from the first night Some thoughts (and a bit of disappointment) from Day 2 Day 3 was another full … Continue reading →
Yesterday contained a full day of sessions — panels and solo speakers — at the free, online American Citizens Summit. Like the first night’s programming, the focus was on how to think of politics differently by ignoring the political expediency … Continue reading →
The American Citizens Summit started last night, with a universal prayer by a Native American, Mona Polacca. I wasn’t able to listen last night, so I caught up this morning before today’s sessions start. As I said in my Compassionate Sunday … Continue reading →
Tonight, I’m giving the first of several presentations at libraries about Cuba. Let me know if you live in the St. Louis area and I’ll send you my schedule. I promised that I would share practical travel information for US residents … Continue reading →
Today’s task for Book Blogger Appreciation Week is to introduce ourselves through five books. Here’s “Me” : 1. The book that proved to me that African-American history is American history and that my history schooling needed a lot of updating … Continue reading →
As I wrote in a previous post, I’m making a table display about my book group for a local educator’s conference. I’ve been using the Learn in Public workbook by Doug Neill to structure this project, including writing blog posts about my … Continue reading →
Marianne of Let’s Read nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award — thanks so much! Here are the rules for the Beautiful Blogger Award: 1. Link to the blogger who has nominated you. 2. List 7 random facts about you. … Continue reading →
One of the “fiercely creative projects” that I committed to yesterday in my final post for the Read Along of Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was: Learn in Public about how to make a table display about my book group … Continue reading →
Today is our final link-up for the Big Magic Read Along. What a great way make a creative start to 2016! Here are our previous discussions: Part I, Courage Part II, Enchantment Part III, Permission Part IV, Persistence Today, we … Continue reading →