Yearly Archives: 2011

There are days when I come to this space and am filled with insecurity.  Days when I stare at the blank screen and  wonder what the heck I am doing.  Days when I compare my words to the words of others and I feel myself shrink, shrink, shrink down in size.  There are days when […]

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Who among us is not familiar with the pink ribbon?  We see it everywhere. . . on hats, shirts, posters, yogurt containers, pens, paper, race forms, commercials, shoes and, well, everywhere.  We see that tiny little ribbon and immediately our brain registers–breast cancer.  It seems that the campaign for Breast Cancer awareness has been going […]

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I’ve always been an early morning runner.  There is nothing like claiming the streets as my own and experiencing the quietness of the earth before it is overrun by engines, people, and the busyness that each day brings.  I have always found that the early morning hours are the most honest.  It is in those […]

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One of the coolest parts of my job is the opportunity I am given to learn about people.  I enjoy hearing about what makes people tick. How their experiences have shaped them.  What they hope for and dream about.  I enjoy trying to understand how they think. There are times, though, when the people I […]

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This morning I sat in church captivated by images and sounds that, ten years later, still take my breath away.  In the darkened room I was mesmerized as I watched the scenes from NYC and was instantly transported back ten years.  Not a movement was made nor an utterance heard from the near one thousand […]

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