When I was AFSC Treasurer, we had the painful experience of two budget cuts. It has recently emerged that the pain of those cuts was widely shared and never healed. To help in remembering how clearly the pain was expressed at the time, I am sharing two documents. The first is the analysis from the … More Institutional Racism and AFSC Finances
December 1, 2023 I am just back from a trip down the memory lane of my historian husband, returning to places he holds dear from his year in Munich as an exchange student in high school. He found a new history museum to include in our visit, drawn by its exhibit on the history of … More The People of Munich and the Lessons of War
3:12 pm. I just arrived home from breast cancer surgery. The doctor removed a “measly” mass from my right breast, discovered through several rounds of sophisticated imaging that started with a regularly-scheduled exam. She also removed some lymph nodes, to check to see whether the cancer had spread. Now I rest, ice, and wait for … More On the side of Peace
Although I did not attempt to join my early-morning worship group (which happened in the evening on Indian Standard Time), I did try my regular morning prayer, which moves from gratitude to stillness to centering. Gratitude, a la Kimmerer, is a sense of feeling part of all of life and taking responsibility for your part. … More Prayer in India
I am on my way back from two weeks in a country that is literally on the other side of the world from where I live, a place that is home to 1.4 billion of my brothers and sisters. I gave a talk at a university, attended a board meeting, and contributed to a professional … More Seeing India 2023
I was amazed to receive an invitation, at the recent Gathering of Quakers from around the county, for a radio interview. It has now been posted on the site of Northern Spirit Radio. It is focused on my work for social justice, both in my professional life in science, technology, and innovation policies, in Washington … More Justice on the radio
My last two months as Treasurer of the American Friends Service Committee were spent putting together a plain-English guide for reading the AFSC audit. I was joined in the project by AFSC’s Chief Financial Officer, Joe Njoroge, and the incoming Treasurer, David Singleton. It’s not easy to compare the numbers in the audit to the … More AFSC Audit Guide
As you have read in my introduction to this theme, Reimagining Redmond is a moral imperative for me. But my work has been encouraged by the participatory action research orientation of the Quaker Institute for the Future. I presented stages of the work in the 2021 and 2022 QIF Summer Research Seminars and was asked … More Reports on Reimagining Redmond
… It turns out I am in the film… … More Feminism Memory Lane – May 2022
My mother-in-law, Yvonne Jewell, died January 23. Juan, Lisa, and I all posted tributes on Facebook. We held a memorial service for her at Willistown Friends Meeting on April 23. The service was full of memories and very moving. We thank all the family members and friends who came and shared, both in the Meetinghouse … More In memoriam Yvonne Jewell
Finding My Place 