The second installment of the Alameda based soap opera “Planning a Meeting” aired on Friday. And it picked up where it left off almost immediately. Facilitator David Early started to reiterate what had been agreed to by consensus at the last meeting and before he could finish Ms. Coler-Dark shouts out “No!” Early continues and [...]
It was a pretty civil affair at the democratic club’s “Measure A Discussion” last night. No big surprises, Barbara Kerr, representing the “don’t even think about touching Measure A” side of the discussion, willfully performed her duties by offering up feelings, and specially chosen facts and photos to illustrate her point of view that all [...]
I picked up my Alameda Journal this morning, I have to cross the street and steal it off a neighbors porch (they’ve given me the OK, so it’s not really stealing) since the Journal is only delivered to the South side of Central Avenue on my block. And read the front page article about the [...]
Last Tuesday night, the City Council discussed the idea of bringing a resolution to bring the troops home from Iraq. A little bit like holding a meeting to discuss holding a meeting, the issue in front of the council was whether or not to debate a resolution to call for the troops to come home [...]
Last Thursday, the Alameda Sun brought a blast from the past in the form of a new Tom Billings editorial. Billings used to write a regular editorial column for the Alameda Journal. His columns regularly put forth a unique perspective, and honestly, I think they probably upset people as often as people found themselves [...]
An acquaintance of mine, a transportation planning consultant, recently told me about a friend of his, and ex-co-worker in San Francisco who is also a transportation planner. After a number of years working on projects in the Bay Area, this planner moved to New York City after getting a job there. While working on a [...]
I am so angry with the Mayor.
Everyone knows that I’ve been requesting (Really demanding) my own personal commission, not just a seat on the Transportation Commission, my own, personal private commission. The goal of this commission? The Overall destruction of the City of Alameda.
Everyone knows that my deepest desire is to stop my [...]
Try as I might, sometimes writing five separate posts a week is harder than it seems like it should be. And sometimes, the unplanned gets in the way. Last Thursday night is an example. I sat down around 11:00pm to quickly tap out Friday’s post, at this point I can’t even remember what it was [...]
If the sleeve of your shirt catches fire, don't wave it around to put it out. Stop, Drop and Roll.
Mindfulness in the face of a challenge.
