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all in a day’s work

I once had a roommate who bragged she had never done a day’s work in her life. Over Thanksgiving, while pondering my life list of all the things I’m grateful for, I realized one of the things I was most thankful for was work. Work conjures visceral love/hate responses. It shows off our strengths, reveals [...]

Failure Academy

“Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.”  Samuel Beckett In the early summer of 1991 we thought we had the world by the tail.  My husband had just finished his first year of law school and had been accepted to study international law for the summer in London.  Hooray! I’m no fool; I quit my job [...]

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