There are many benefits to conflict, when addressed effectively. Being an effective communicator means truly embracing the namesake “Cool, Comms, Collected” by remaining cool, calm, and collected while facing conflict. We’ll review the three C’s of effective communication, participate in a roll-playing game that simulates a crisis (in a comical way), and have a graduation…
Local author Carol Milberger, P.h.D. will discuss her debut book MOLDed: A Memoir of Loss & Resilience. Within these suspenseful pages of horror, survival, and dark humor, you’ll walk with a woman who, along with her husband and three children, refused to surrender. As the air thickened with toxic spores, her fierce determination ignited. As…
Join Librarian Nicholle Halprin to make wildflower seed bombs and more to celebrate Earth Day!
Analysts of American policy in 2025 have the unusual advantage of being able to assess the new president’s likely policies against the backdrop of what he did in his first term, four years earlier. The prognosis is not positive. Great Decisions is a nationwide, non-partisan program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association intended to broaden…
Artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI, is often claimed as an emerging technology that will disrupt all facets of society. Great Decisions is a nationwide, non-partisan program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association intended to broaden public involvement in foreign affairs. It was launched over 50 years ago, and today tens of thousands of participants…
Europe is frightened and frightening for the first time really since the 1980s, when nuclear sabers were rattling as the Soviet Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) both deployed contending intermediate range missiles along the dividing line of the military alliances. With Russia’s continued barbarity in Ukraine there is no escaping that Vladimir…
Over the past 30 years, climate change has become one of the central global challenges of the modern era, one that has hugely important consequences for the livability of the planet. Great Decisions is a nationwide, non-partisan program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association intended to broaden public involvement in foreign affairs. It was launched…
As the Republic of India marks its 75th anniversary in January 2025, the world’s most populous nation and largest democracy continues to defy simple categorization. Great Decisions is a nationwide, non-partisan program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association intended to broaden public involvement in foreign affairs. It was launched over 50 years ago, and today…
There is one thing that people can actually agree on across the aisle in Washington, DC: The United States is in a strategic competition with a rising China that poses a range of economic, political, and military security challenges. Great Decisions is a nationwide, non-partisan program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association intended to broaden…
All are invited to play American Mah Jongg at the library on Monday afternoons. Please bring cards and sets if you have them and join in the fun! This is a free play, open session without a dedicated instructor.