The event to raise money for Haitian earthquake relief through the Red Cross is being held tomorrow, at the Ohio Historical Society, and through online donations.
You can find out all the details, and how you can help, from the press release.
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mike McBride (@mikemac29) A few thoughts after driving all the way from South Carolina to our new home in Oregon last week. This is such a big country. It’s impossible to imagine that anyone living on a coast has any idea about what it’s like…
Just a couple of notes from the first part of the long time away from home and normal routine. We drove down to Roanoke, VA for my cousin’s wedding, taking advantage of the time to explore around the Roanoke area, visit with some of Angela’s friends and family before going to the wedding and seeing…
Looks like I’m not the only one having huge problems with web and email hosting this week. Take a look at http://thathost.topcities.com/wwwboard/index.html Seems like people are starting to get a little testy, myself included. By the way the status today is the same as it was yesterday, the same as it’s been for 5 days…
It seems like forever since I spent much time just shooting some photos, so when Angela suggested a stop at Inniswood on the way home from Marion on Saturday, it sounded like a great idea. Not only was it tough to get back in the shooting groove, but this was the first time out with…
Luckily, with everything having remote options now, it’s actually pretty easy to pop in and simply listen without really being noticed, or at least, feeling a bit better about not being noticed.
And, really, you should. Everyone should. Not because you necessarily have anything to add, but because you have an opportunity to listen.
Listening to different groups of people talk about their issues will open your eyes to the things that we, as white men, don’t notice. It gives us the opportunity to hear about racism and sexism that still happens to real people that we know and interact with every day. The stories about things like street harassment aren’t happening to random women complaining online, they are happening to the same women I just spent hours working through a project with, the people who’ve been victims of racist violence aren’t random names in the news, they are the folks we were just chatting about the weather with before a conference call, and collaborating with on documentation for the last week. The things we might read about adding pronouns to an email signature make it sound like a decent thing to do, but hearing someone you work with talk about how life-affirming it is to not be the “one” person at the company doing it? Yeah, it hits different when you hear that from someone you know.
So, as much as I have gone about my professional life glad that there were resource groups available but not really paying much attention to them, I’ve recently made a change and tried to drop in and listen where I could. It’s been a challenge. These are not fun, light, conversations. They shouldn’t be.
It’s tomorrow. I wanted to take part, I really did. I even talked to a coworker about signing up for the same one. I hesitated, only because I knew it’d be a week from my trip to Ireland and Scotland, and there’d be an outside chance that maybe there would be some last minute things…