Please join me in supporting OpportunityNation!

Please join me in supporting OpportunityNation, a new campaign of Be the Change Inc. that will change the United States of America in three specific and important ways.First, OpportunityNation seeks to build a national dialogue on opportunity. They believe opportunity is a core American value, and that it desperately needs to be injected into the… Continue reading Please join me in supporting OpportunityNation!

Don’t miss Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

Seriously, one of the coolest exhibits ever. It’s at the Brooklyn Museum now through April 10, so no excuses! It’s incredible to see how so many of his paintings are collages of several different study photographs, whereas others are almost exact replicas. One of my favorites was of a guy looking at a painting, and… Continue reading Don’t miss Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

Blackcurrants: a short and crazy history lesson

Blackcurrants are native to Europe and Northern Asia, and are delicious berries. What’s crazy is that growing them was  outlawed in the US in the early 1900s because of white pine blister rust, which is bad for trees. The US government didn’t know the high antioxidant and high vitamin content at the time, and it… Continue reading Blackcurrants: a short and crazy history lesson

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good. Elizabeth Edwards