Award Winning Blog - Agitator

Calculating the Risk of Failure

As the combined horrors of major crisis within major crisis within major crisis piled up last week there was one moment of elation. The triumphant launch of SpaceX’s Dragon and its successful rendezvous with the International Space Station. In the course of the cable news runup to the launch Brian Williams of MSNBC interviewed retired […]

Learn More June 1, 2020

Your Story, Well Told

She had spent days thinking, drafting, re-drafting. No computer at first, pencil and a pad, old school. The crumbled paper spilled from her wastebasket and the candle burned at both ends. Coffee mornings, wine evenings. Digital drafts counted the dozens. Mark Twain adages rumbled in her head, “I apologize for such a long letter – […]

Learn More May 29, 2020

What Covid-19 Relief is Your Nonprofit Receiving? A Checklist of Opportunities

In “We’re All In This Together” is Horseshit” I castigated some consumer companies for their disingenuous and near-universal language proclaiming their shared concern with us while pressing their under-paid and under-protected “essential” employees to serve those of us privileged enough to be safe at home. To be fair, I did see some advertising from insurance companies, […]

Learn More May 26, 2020

Memorial Day 2020

MOURN. REMEMBER.

Learn More May 25, 2020

Christmas In Your Mailbox

These days my digital inbox is overpowered with vapid and annoying messages fired three times an hour mostly by various candidates and committees affiliated with the Democratic Party. (If this is the way they treat us donors I wonder about their skill set when it comes to beating Trump?) Between the spurts of political drivel […]

Learn More May 22, 2020

We Don’t Write So Good

Writing well is hard. Hunter S. Thompson famously re-typed a fiction book just to know what if felt like. That’s either crazy or brilliant. Either way, it’s commitment. Hemingway rewrote the first part of “A Farewell to Arms” at least fifty times. He also advised, “don’t get discouraged, there’s a lot of mechanical work to […]

Learn More May 20, 2020