It’s been a few weeks and my fingers are twitching to write – but will still keep it short! Today’s Serve60Sharp concept is grace. Give it to yourself and others. We NEVER know what’s going on in someone’s life. Many times even our closest friends. Americans suck it up and do what we need to do. Especially women. Whining about it …
Challenge: Spend Less, Give More
Our community service tip for this week is a SPENDING CHALLENGE! Not our idea, but from Rev. Adam Hamilton at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection here in the KC area. It’s a simple concept Happy serving – your community AND Thanksgiving dinner! Stephanie
Neighborly Resourcing: Pick a Meeting, Any Meeting!
Amid complaints of lacking transparency, units of government have “flooded the zone” with as much public information as possible in an effort to avoid conflict with the public. As a voter looking for information, this 100% access comes with challenges because there’s SO MUCH information out there, sometimes it can seem impossible to find what you’re really looking for. With VoteSharp in …
Help ME Help YOU*
PLEASE don’t complain to me about your elected officials being unengaged or uncommunicative UNLESS you’ve answered the door when they came by… They LITERALLY walked to your house and are standing ON YOUR DOORSTEP!! Stephanie did campaign consulting for more than a decade and she knows voters don’t like: And yet, “I never hear from my elected official” is a common refrain. EACH of these examples …
Holidays in a Hurry
As if your daily mental load isn’t enough, add the exhaustion of this election cycle, and now we’re bringing up the holidays already? Pumpkins at the grocery store, candy bags clogging the aisles, and avoiding those aisles like the plague if you have kids in tow… But let’s talk about the December holidays!!!! This is your reminder to get family …
Primary Day in KS/MO
We have missed two weeks of Serve60Sharp and will explain that under separate cover. However, we wanted to get information out about today’s Primary Election in Kansas and Missouri. Yes, we know voting started 20 days ago and many of you have been asking for this! Stay tuned. EVERY Johnson County voter has an election today! The big races in the …
Knock, Knock… Answer the *&!$# Door!
🚫 Stranger Danger Why is a stranger knocking on your door? Because it’s a candidate who wants to meet you. For the love of Pete, answer it! The old adage that “if you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain” applies here. If you don’t answer the door when a candidate knocks, you don’t get to say: They LITERALLY walked to your house and are standing …
Your Turn: Serve60Sharp
It’s Get to Know Your Subscribers Day! If you want to get technical, July 18 is Get to Know Your Customers (read: Subscribers) Day. But next week we will take a quick walk through Fall Primary Elections in a handful of states. This newsletter focuses on civic engagement and serving your neighbors, friends, and greater community, with 1-minute reads which …
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What’s your favorite July 4th tradition? It’s THE day in our neighborhood, and only our 2nd living here, so we are establishing new traditions. They include a Yankee Doodle parade featuring all of the poodle mix dogs🐩, a golf cart parade, classic games like sack, wheelbarrow, and 3-legged races, and of course🎇🎆! These pics are from last year – we …
🇺🇸≠🎆Patriotism ≠ Explosives: Figuratively or Literally…
We wish you a fun and safe July 4th week, celebrating our independence and the rights we all share, especially my favorite, the right to vote! July 4th also makes me think of fireworks – where they SHOULD and SHOULDN’T be! So we go back to the BINGO board for O1: Attend a Town Hall Meeting. Especially if you’ve had trouble …