Spinning Plates
A former client wrote to me “…may your kindness return to you in ways you never expect…” Notes like these keep me steady as we spin a dozen plates.
What Dolly Taught Me
Our Crucible Moments define us. From the seekers to the teachers, the reachers to the leaders, aren’t we all one of them at any given point in our lives?
One Wild and Precious Life
My impatience with life’s tests melts away when I consider the alternatives to stable housing in the extreme heat of the Phoenix summer.
Holding a Long Breath
As we enter a new fiscal year, we must remain focused to solutions, using data and an equity frame to collaboratively ensure all humans have access to a home.
No Roots
HUD released its notice of funding opportunity – and it’s fraught with misinformation, opinion, and a basic misunderstanding of root cause.
Oh, The Places You Won’t Go
For some time, I have stared at a Dr. Seuss book called Oh, the Places You’ll Go, thinking that’s nice…and it doesn’t apply at all to those who are homeless.
It Has to be Both
“Ending homelessness” means working with an unhoused individual to gain stability and a roof overhead. It also means changing the systems that lead them there to begin with.
Grateful. Humble. Inspired.
So much learning to share from the National Alliance to End Homelessness Leadership Summit. Warning to my team, I am going to challenge us in new ways!
I Used to Avoid “Hope”
For some reason “hope” has always put a hitch in my giddy up. The optimism of the Arizona Shelter Network forced me to reconsider.
First-ever Homeless Service Provider-led Action Team Launches
A press conference was held this morning to officially launch the Arizona Shelter Network as a collaborative of leading shelter providers working together to strengthen Arizona’s response to homelessness.