by Grace Alfiero | Apr 21, 2021 | Advocacy, Leadership, News, Photography, Storytelling, Travel
In town to attend a national conference on guardianship and elder law, I was in San Francisco twenty-nine years ago when the Rodney King verdict was announced. I remember eating a fresh sourdough avocado sandwich for a late lunch at a small cafe near Fisherman’s...
by Grace Alfiero | Jul 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
After college and before I met the man I am married to, I dated a narcissist. During a brutally lengthy five year, on-again, off-again relationship, I was ultimately forced to confront my own control and anxiety issues. Now, my recollections of this time are still...
by Grace Alfiero | May 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, feminism, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
In the early 1990s, I worked for a law office and provided geriatric care management for several of the firm’s clients. We offered family law services, trust, and estate planning, and handled dependency cases. Half of the work was legal in nature, and the other half...
by Grace Alfiero | Apr 10, 2020 | Artist Advocacy, Career Mamma, Colors, Leadership, News, Photography, Portfolio, Storytelling
Most of us know at least one brilliant artist. A painter, sculptor, writer, actor or musician. Someone who perhaps has sacrificed a steady paycheck for the satisfaction of creating within their own vision, folks who are true contributors to our culture. Art influences...
by Grace Alfiero | Apr 5, 2020 | Career Mamma, Illustration, Leadership, News, Portfolio, Storytelling
Just this week, nature peeked out big and signs of a seasonal change are everywhere. Viridescent laurel leaf buds spider out toward the sky and line our front lawn with the contrasting white pear blooms of our neighbor’s yard. Deep purple hyacinth blossoms encircle...
by Grace Alfiero | Mar 15, 2019 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, Leadership, News, Storytelling
Just like no one truly owns a beautiful forest and no one truly owns a coral reef, nonprofit organizations were not set up to be owned by any one individual. Sole ownership of a tax exempt entity is counter intuitive and the antithesis of the sectors’ original...
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