I played the blues, I sang the blues, I orated the blues, I lived the blues, I survived the blues … How about you? The wail has subsided in my soul … From its toll, I was reborn.... Read more >>

If you have a mission in life, I bet you have days where you’re thrilled to be serving the greater good and days when you’re not sure you’re going to accomplish what you’ve set... Read more >>

Mission statements were all the rage throughout corporate America in the 1980s. And vision boards, handmade collages of visual images a person wants to attract to their life, were featured in... Read more >>

If you go to Burma, you are supporting a repressive regime. If you go to Burma and support the locals, you’re helping in the mission to make it free. Take your pick. Deciding on whether to... Read more >>

I live in one of the yuppiest neighborhoods in the city. It wasn’t exactly by choice; it’s where I happened to land a year ago, but I welcomed the change. I went from my artistic, Spanish... Read more >>

To celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, a motley group of pets and their human companions gather on the lawn outside the exquisite Santa Barbara Mission. Although fall means crisp... Read more >>

A few weeks ago in Liberia, I met with several women’s groups who told me about the new “rape law” which had come into force last year. The passing of this law is a great achievement... Read more >>

I walked down 18th Street the other day in the Mission—my most recent stomping ground in my eleven years in San Francisco. I saw my personal Mission poster boy sitting in a lawn chair on the... Read more >>