Category: Work
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Part Four: Too Busy to be the Public?
This post is part of my series Keeping the Faith: Fostering Engaged Citizenship in the US. Jefferson County, Colorado, where I live, is having a virtual public ‘meeting’ about changes to one of the main drags through my town. They’ve done some work trying to promote it, sending postcards to impacted neighborhoods, making a few announcements on…
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National Service
Today, watching a back episode of Amanpour and Co., I heard Mark Cuban call for National Service. The idea gets kicked around. Pete Buttigieg, a Navy vet, rolled out a whole plan, along with Kirsten Gillibrand, and some more obscure Democratic candidates. Clinton called for an expansion of AmeriCorps in 2016, as did Obama in…
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Day Twenty-Nine: Essential
I read an article today from FastCompany about all the permanent changes we can expect to see coming out of this. The bulk of it was about how more people would work from home, with a few interviewees selling their different products or industries. Granted, the publication is FastCompany. It’s not exactly your go-to magazine…
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Sorry, Evergreen, I’m Not Going to Deliver Your Mail
It’s 10:30 PM on a Wednesday. I drive up to the bank of mailboxes, some of them are dented into modern art. I wonder again, what is going on in Evergreen that is so hard on mailboxes? Are the elk attacking them? A group of elk is called a gang, after all, and they are…