Credit: primipil It has been awhile.  What I had hoped to do in 2025:   posting weekly….then bi-monthly…..then monthly…is not what I had the inner strength to sustain.  Simply put:  I was overwhelmed. Since January, every day there has been some change spearheaded by the Executive Branch that has been more shocking than the day before.  I wanted to look away, but found myself scouring various platforms on policy changes that were announced.  By late spring and summer, I was e

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Bulgnn One of my favorite tees in high school was the “They Were Here First” T-shirt.  My passion for engaging and preserving the...

Before I ever knew the word "Reaganomics," I felt its weight.  That weight hit home when in the early 1980s my family moved from Brooklyn...

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Why I’m Speaking Up Now BLUPrint is a space for thinking out loud—strategically, personally, and politically. It’s where I share lessons...