2016

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 One of our early Houston founding families supported the creation of settlement houses and community centers, because, as he said, “neighbors should live as friends”. I just recently returned from Germany. A country leading the struggle to welcome newcomers, to make a place for over a million Syrian refugees. German […]

SAVING GRACE

Loving Detachment When I desperately wanted to save my family from the ravages of the disease of alcoholism, I would have gone to any lengths to force solutions, would have said anything, done anything. And I tried in all the ways I knew how, to adjust, to shape shift, to mitigate what was happening in […]

Still Out to Change the World

Since May, when it was announced I’d be leaving my role as President and CEO of BakerRipley at the end of the year, people have been asking about the transition. What’s next for the agency? For me? I spent some time answering those questions. Are you really retiring?No. That’s the way others have described my […]