There are times in your life when you don’t want any attention. You want to just keep your head down and your nose clean. Plebe summer at the United States Naval Academy was one such time in my life. If I could have been invisible that would have been ideal because attention meant correction, some form of humiliation and demerits. It was bad enough being a woman in the earliest years of integration at USNA. Attention…
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Leave a CommentMy kids grew up playing with unit blocks. I can’t tell you the number of hours we’d build cities and fortresses during those early years. One day after spending much time using every block in our double set, we sat back to enjoy the incredible structure we had built together. I asked my oldest then 7 and 6 years of age what would happen if their 3-year-old brother came over and knocked off a block? “We’d just put…
Leave a CommentThe morning started like another with getting children ready to start their day so it was so unusual for my mom to call me. “Mary turn on the TV.” My mom knew I was just starting my school day and that we normally didn’t have a TV on. There I was faced with the images of the World Trade Center Building in flames. As I sat stunned watching, my phone rang again. This time it…
3 CommentsWho here would remember the cartoon of my childhood, Underdog? It is along the lines of other similar cartoon themes of the day where the hero is the one least likely to succeed, who bumbles his way to defeating the archenemy. Somehow the mistakes work out in the end to save the day. Here’s what today’s paradox reminds us. Don’t overlook the person least likely in your mind to succeed. Looks are deceiving! The underdog…
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