Visible Woman

Parties, presents, decorations, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday. Pressure, deadlines. Get those gifts in the mail, make your pl...

I had written about it before but I spent twenty minutes searching for the words. Amazingly, although I wrote the words over ten years ago ...

No, I didn't buy a puffy jacket for a dog for charity. And this entry is not about the Holidailies Charity Project . That was yesterday ...

Charity is something that my husband (known as FFP here) and I consider carefully, giving our time and coin to things that we think can make...

This picture is a couple of years old. But it is an example of one of the many 'events' we attend in the course of a year. They are ...

Last night I was sitting at a table for eight with some of the 'lesser' donors for a nonprofit capital campaign we are involved in. ...

This is not a picture of us last night. I think we are not this fat now. (But I'm often deluded.) I have no idea when and where this wa...

The picture was snapped at some event in 2004. I'm thinking the Opera Ball but I'm not absolutely sure. I just consulted my calendar...

Those of you know me, knowI love to entertain. I like people coming together, hearing music, eating and drinking and enjoying. I like to ha...

I've eaten beans and rice, of course, to get by, and got through college on tuna casseroles and such. But I've eaten my share of gou...

10. What a cool name for a hot dog wagon! (See picture.) 9. The mussels at Capitol Brasserie. 8. Mercury Design Studio . 7. Walking to Whole...

Who am I to give financial advice? Nobody. I don't have a designation with a C in front of it like CPA or a Certified Financial Planner....