While 2010 was a good year (as you can see by the “2010 Top 10” post from last week), it wasn’t quite the year I was looking for when it started. These were the goals of 2010: More writing success: I did publish again this year and have a story that will get sent out [...]
31Dec10
Ready for 2011
1Jan10
New Years Goals 2010
It’s that time of year again. A new year begins and it’s time to look backwards and forwards. At the start of 2009, I had these goal categories in mind. How did I do? Let’s see: Volunteering: I connected with the The Ali Forney Center at the beginning of the year and by mid-year I [...]
13Sep09
A Queer Professional Discussion
One of the things I do as a Life Coach at the Ali Forney Center is help to put together seminars, or what they call Life Retreats, so the clients we work with can learn about topics that can help them in the real world. Some of the retreats I’ve participated in since I’ve been [...]
I spent a part of this afternoon at a panel discussion put together by the Ali Forney Center to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The riots, which started the night of June 28, 1969 and went on for several more nights, marked the beginning of the gay rights movement. On the first [...]
9May09
Studio Museum in Harlem
I spent a couple hours this afternoon at the Studio Museum in Harlem. This was an excellent outing. The centerpiece of the current exhibits is Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit. Linzy’s website describe the artist’s work: “Linzy is doing to daytime soaps what John Waters did to his Baltimore childhood. Part Richard Pryor, part [...]
4Apr09
Boundaries and Engagement
I’ve attended three more training sessions since I wrote last month about how it was going in my efforts to become a life coach for the Ali Forney Center. The training has been enlightening. Much of it has centered around how to connect with the clients and engage them in the right way. It’s really [...]
8Mar09
Becoming a Life Coach
Back in late January I wrote that I was looking at becoming a life coach for the Ali Forney Center. Since then I’ve been to a general orientation session about the program and have attended the first of six training sessions. I knew this was going to be a challenging undertaking and the initial training [...]
