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- Crossroads Dispatches
When I was a little girl, the oldest of three girls, my parents made the mistake of starting to take us to the neighborhood Catholic Church not too long enough after they broke the news that Santa Claus wasn't... ›››
Category: Awareness | Storytelling | Teachable Moments
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- Crossroads Dispatches
Pictured right is an entry from one of Janice Lowry's journals. The artist has kept journals for her entire adult life. "It's the cheapest therapy a person can do," she says. - from Somerset Studio's Signatures: The Art Journal... ›››
Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Tsunami | writing
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- Crossroads Dispatches
For two months, I realized I could live and function daily quite well (perhaps better) without being consumed with what's hot on Memeorandum. But that's not why the question of giving up blogging occured to me (that is, after... ›››
Category: Storytelling | Weblogs | writing
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- Crossroads Dispatches
For two months, I realized I could live and function daily quite well (perhaps better) without being consumed with what's hot on Memeorandum. But that's not why the question of giving up blogging occured to me (that is, after... ›››
Category: Storytelling | Weblogs | writing
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- John Winsor
After reading my Sharing the Story post, a friend sent me a link to Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen blog. It's worth checking out.... ›››
Category: Storytelling
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- John Winsor
Lately, I’ve been talking to lots of folks about improving their internal presentations by turning them into powerful stories. All of us have sat through boring PowerPoint presentations. So, how do you make your information have more impact? In... ›››
Category: Storytelling
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- Crossroads Dispatches
I briefly met Bazuki the other day at the Christmas Day ceremonies with the twenty-one Buddhist forest monks. He and Ed both work for Reuters, and they are among the very few journalists and photographers I've been impressed with.... ›››
Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | The Greater Hunger | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
Photos from yesterday and today's One Year in Memory of Tsunami ceremonies on Phi Phi Island, Thailand, which a Bangkok Post reporter tells me was this country's hardest hit island. It's nearly midnight now and December 26th is coming...... ›››
Category: Global Lens | Storytelling | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
I spend an inordinate time at the press center organized by PhiPhi26community.com today uploading photos. From this vantage point at the Phi Phi Inn, which was also generously converted into a temporary medical center earlier this year until the... ›››
Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
We stood for a minute of silence at 10:15 a.m. this morning. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. A six or seven-year old blond girl with a white sundress gently bows and... ›››
Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
I wake in the morning and peek through the mosquito netting and straight through the wide slats in the bamboo hut. My line of sight ahead is above the rooftop terrace bungalows where guests slept alfresco on the evening... ›››
Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››
Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
In Krabi I picked up Time Asia, six of the sixteen Best Photos of 2005 were of disaster (including shots from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, and the Pakistan/India earthquake). Time quotes Susan Sontag: Narrative can make us understand,... ›››
Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››
Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami
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- Crossroads Dispatches
In Krabi I picked up Time Asia, six of the sixteen Best Photos of 2005 were of disaster (including shots from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, and the Pakistan/India earthquake). Time quotes Susan Sontag: Narrative can make us understand,... ›››
Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami
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