This is hard to write. I feel like a split persona: a survivor of social isolation as well as founder and program manager for CSIR. As the latter, maybe this blog should always be about CSIR. And yet, if I were not a survivor, I would not be manager. I cannot let this recent review […]
GoKennebunks, October 5, 2016
Advisory Group Member Bernie Reim kindly carried in our table, chair and books. He had to leave soon for Waterville. Picture about thirty non-profits in a long hallway….think high school corridor. We each had about ten feet, having an organization on either side plus one right across from us. Momentarily I panicked over how I […]
Maine School Counselors Association Annual Meeting, 2016
At the Maine School Counselors Association Annual Meeting at the Harriseckett Inn in Freeport, October 21, twenty-two counselors came to the break-out session to hear my talk about the pain of severe shyness and isolation. Painstakingly, we had prepared a take-home folder with seven inserts: articles about CSIR, about my book and about ideas we […]
start early
start early Be a child for a day! What do you see, feel, want? Watch a green onion with water and sun grow into a huge stalk! Is it possible to start too early to cultivate good character? Everyone knows this is not true, but the question becomes is it always possible to start […]
From Severe Shyness Support (S3) to Center for Social Isolation Relief (CSIR)
Who says nothing happens in Maine except tourism in the summer! At several meetings in Portland, SCORE-whose national goal is to help 1 million clients by 2020-and I worked hard to grow one small non-profit. Present was a mentor from the for-profit world, one from the non-profit one, myself, and, amongst the three of us, […]