I believe in working with your strengths. Knowing my strengths has meant I can let go of what other people do well and focus on using my own strength in the service to others. My top strength is input. The reason I mention it is because Christmas is deeply influenced by my need to collect and archive. I am so curious and want to learn as much as I can in general and specifically with the Christmas…
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What you know first you know best. For me, at this time of year, what I knew first and best was a live Christmas tree. Along with that tree, I remember the vinyl records from the Reader’s Digest Collection of Christmas music playing, “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus” and “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth all while we decorated that tree. My first Christmas where I purchased my own tree…
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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…
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