Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- American Stories NOW
- Angie Muresan
- River's Wind Notes
- RUNNING BRUSH :
- The Perpetual Bird
- Word-Dreamer: poetics
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Charitable Gift & Estate Planner |
| Location | Fieldbrook, California, United States |
| Introduction | When not writing blog posts and poetry, I serve as a Regional Development Team Leader /Senior Philanthropy & Planned Giving Adivsor for ChildFund International. Previously, I served as Director of Planned Giving for Humboldt State University as well as President & CEO of two charitable foundations, among other philanthropic roles. I've been fortunate to win a few literary awards over the years. My husband, former head of the California Raptor Center at UC Davis, and I live with our two cats on the far North Coast of California among redwoods, ocean, lots of wildlife and creative, engaged people. (Photo: Exploring Bryce Canyon) |
| Interests | hiking, writing poetry & nonfiction, reading, sea kayaking, collecting lovely stones at Patrick's point, traveling & exploring with my husband, cat juggling |
| Favorite Music | Nora Jones, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Vaughn, Enya, Kenny G, James Taylor, Dave Brubeck, George Winston, Ray Charles, Simon & Garfunkel, Jazz, Folk, Peruvian, Brazilian, African, Reggae, lots of what you find on KHSU, Papa Houli & the Fleas |
| Favorite Books | Favorites—Poetry: The Way It Is/William Stafford, New and Selected Poems/Mary Oliver, The City in Which I Love You/Li-Young Lee, The October Palace/Jane Hirshfield, Human Wishes/Robert Haas, The Gift of Tongues—25 Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press/Sam Hamill Ed., On the Blue Shore of Silence—Poems of the Sea/Pablo Neruda/translated by Alastair Reid, The Stone Harp/John Haines, Winter Morning Walks/Ted Kooser; Knocking on the Earth/ Ellery Akers, The Nootka Rose/Sam Hamill, Let Evening Come/Jane Kenyon, Ordinary Things/Jean Valentine, Favorites—Nonfiction & Other: Refuge/Terry Tempest Williams. Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Terry Tempest Williams, Island Within/Richard Nelson, Glass Paper Beans/Leah Hager Cohen, Three Cups of Tea/Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek/Annie Dillard, Snow Leopard/Peter Matthiessen, The Moon by Whale Light/Diane Ackerman, Winter/Rick Bass, Traveling Mercies/Anne Lamott, The Wisdom of the Body/Sherwin Nuland, Flow—The Psychology of Optimal Experience/ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Art of Pilgrimage/Phil Cousineau, Infidel/Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nickel and Dimed/Barbara Ehrenreich, I Thought My Father was God and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project/edited by Paul Auster, My Story as Told by Water/David James Duncan, Mountains of the Heart/Scott Weidensaul, Tree—A Life Story/David Suzuki & Wayne Grady, Mind of the Raven/Bernd Heinrich, Epitaph for a Peach/David Mas Masumoto, Great Possessions/David Kline, The Tao of Pooh/Benjamin Hoff, The Carrot Seed/Ruth Krauss |