“Create for your child, for yourself, for your family, for your organization, for your community, for this country, and for this world if you possibly can, a connected life.”
Those are the words of Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John Ratey, M.D. in their new book ADHD 2.0. As an…
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Did you know?
4 billion people (primarily women) on this planet cook their meals over open fires.
Smoke from these open fires is the equivalent of smoking 400 cigarettes per hour (that’s three packs a day).
Smoke from these open fires is the number one killer of children under the age of 5.
4 million people…
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I'm am less afraid of losing my job than of losing our democracy!
That was the perspective of Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican representative from Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, when she voted to impeach the former president. Though I disagree with Representative Beutler on most issues, I want to acknowledge…
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Today, January 20, 2021 marks the first day of the new administration of President Joseph Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Today also marks the launch of my new 4-year project, Who We Can Be. As I mentioned last month in the final post of My 1000 Small Steps, this title was…
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Who can we be as we look toward 2021?
2020 is a year that will forever live in our memories – a pandemic, a tumultuous election, horrendous wild fires, devastation of our economy, the fight for racial justice, the climate crisis, and the deaths of two inspirational leaders – John Lewis…
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The outcome of the 2016 presidential election inspired me to launch the project My 1000 Small Steps, so the results of the presidential election on November 3, 2020 would not leave me and millions of other Americans with the same feelings of disbelief, despair, and doom we experienced in 2016.
Although we didn’t…
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