On Monday, I drove to Manteca to meet a friend from my bar association days who works for a winery. She went from being ED of a Bar Association to a compliance analyst in the wine industry and absolutely loves what she does. I could see why, it gave her a whole new industry to…

Today I went to an archiving workshop at the Mill Valley Public library. There was a group of about 20 of us who were taught basic labeling and archiving methods.  We helped the library with archiving some of its historical information as well as categorizing slides and 8 mm film for a local art nonprofit. It…

I’ve had a productive and social couple of days. Thursday was a cloudy, foggy day. It was nice to be bundled up and walking on the waterfront – saw lots of cool sites.  I was in San Francisco to meet a friend from my MNA cohort for lunch – we haven’t seen each other in…

Taking Winston with me when I went through the car wash, seeing his excited surprise Thinking about my dad on Father’s Day with my mom and two of my sisters, we barbecued tri-tip in his honor. Writing poetry and Emmy’s backyard by the fire pit and later enjoying a fire. Seeing a beautiful blue heron,…

Winston and I had a pretty relaxing Saturday, getting out for walks early in the day and then later in the day when it was cooler. I got to spend time with Vilda, my hairdresser, who not only does a fantastic job on my hair, but is a wonderful person to spend time with. She…

On Friday, I spent time doing homework for the Interim Executive Academy, a large part of which was a self assessment about my experience as a nonprofit ED and what I would bring to an interim role that would assist an organization in transition. I found taking the assessment to be very helpful and informative,…

Delights from the last two days: 

This morning, I was up early to make myself breakfast and coffee as I had to head down to a coffee shop in Murphys to use the Wi-Fi. I’m participating in an Interim Executive Academy to learn more about the role of Interim EDs and the first session was today. I headed over to the…

I was treated to an incredible display of stars last night. Because the weather is warm and dry, I slept without the fly on my tent so I could look up into the sky. It made waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom a much more enjoyable experience when…

This morning, I saw this list that Gretchen Rubin posted of what didn’t make it into the speech she gave for her daughter’s high school graduation last year. I like all of them except number 5. That one just seems like it’s too much about forcing your ideas on others, but all the rest rang…