At 89 years old, most people are told to slow down.

The DBAN Board of Directors  2026-27 President Paul Signorelli '76 VP, Reunions & Events Marilyn Chavez-Martinez '22 VP, Membership & Networking Matthew Royer '24 VP, Learning & Professional Developme...

Join the California Library Association Conference 2025 in Riverside, Oct 23-25, for inspiring sessions, networking, and stories that showcase library impact.

It did not matter that the note I received from my doctor recently was probably a note routinely sent to all of her patients (or even to all the patients by all the doctors within the Kaiser-Perman…

Giving to UCLA

Reading that the South Florida Chapter of ATD (the Association for Talent Development) is the ATD March 2026 Chapter of the Month comes as no surprise to me. It’s a community of learning that is dy…

Gather on March 28th.

I didn’t start blogging to share my voice, I started to learn. Nearly 2,000 posts later, it has shaped my thinking, career, and opportunities.

“Not to write, for many of us, is to die.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, p. vii, 1996 I have, for close to a year now, felt dead. It’s not that life wasn’t full of joy, pleasure, …

Organizers estimated that millions of Americans attended rallies in cities and towns across America, protesting the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

Reimagining power for people who are tired of revenge

Session 1 held on September 8, 2021 - The California Library Advocacy Landscape Introduction to Advocacy

It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on the topic of Trump’s most recent attack on our elections to give that topic th...

Dropbox, Pinterest, Figma and more remain committed.

The headline tonight reads, “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision.” It’s in The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of liberal views.

Trump is now pursuing his fever dream of a federalized police state in the nation's capital. We cannot remain silent.

On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.

Find out why Mychal Threets is on the list

At about 10:30 this morning local time, heavily armed masked agents in trucks, armored vehicles, a helicopter, on foot, and on horseback, accompanied by a gun mounted on a truck raided the MacArthur P...

A Saturday Prompt

July 1, 2025

This week’s edition of The Democracy Index is especially important.

Trump’s policies will hit the American heartland hard, very hard

Senator Alex Padilla is an American hero

Keys to success included: identifying and clearly communicating needs, anticipating challenges, collaborating with community groups, running distinct campaigns for each initiative, and developing a motivating “vocabulary of success.”