When we last left off, our heroine was fumbling over her myriad passwords and tolerating the brutal Arkansas summer with aplomb, whatever that is. As the months ticked by, she bravely trudged on, juggling her jobs and home life and health. On the MS front, things are pretty OK. Not perfect, no. That would require […]

What a whirlwind week it has been. I was honored to take part in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., these past few days. Activists from around the country met for two days of rigorous training and discussions, and then the society let us loose on the Hill to talk […]

You ask any organization what its biggest resource is, and the obvious answer will be people. Not just staff, although they are the lynchpins to a nonprofit’s cause, but volunteers. How to educate, motivate and mobilize those volunteers takes a Herculean effort. Some would say it’s Sisyphean. But I’m not listening to those naysayers. Maybe […]

My friends, do this one thing for me. Take a camera. Take your hands, put them in a low V, as if you were going to play Red Rover and hold hands with two others. Or go ahead and grab two friends. Or four. Or six. All hold hands in a big chain. Have someone […]