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  • Silence

    Just a month ago, I visited Caesar’s Head State Park in South Carolina. Today this region holds thousands of lives that have been disrupted, destroyed, forever altered. Sometimes silence is better than words. 

  • Doin’ New Things this Week…

    Doin’ New Things this Week…

    In August, I joined a local Toastmasters Club, fulfilling a dream that I have carried for almost thirty years. On Wednesday, I delivered my first “Icebreaker” speech to the club. Want to read what planned to say… check it out here.  This past summer, I made a list of all the local places that I…

  • Patchwork Quilt Me

    Patchwork Quilt Me

    In August 2024, I became a member of the Pelham Toastmasters Club 2307. On Wednesday Sepetmber 25, I shared my first speech – the Icebreaker. Here is the speech that I prepared. And as anyone who has stood in front of a group understands, this is NOT the speech that I gave. But it’s the…

  • Picture This

    Picture This

    Picture this. A 7yo kid that was so excited to get her first library card getting to walk through the holy and beautiful doors of the New York Public Library. Was it the little girl or the 51 year old woman who stepped with respect and awe through the halls?  Picture this. A kid that…

  • Word Tools

    Word Tools

    My go-to dictionary is Merriam Webster. One of the flavors of my love affair with words is to know ALL that a word means, and to peak around at uses of the word that I might not have considered. I’m also quite fond of tracing a words origins (and do not have a single go-to…

  • I love Tools

    I love Tools

    Marc likes to tell people, especially contractors that come to our home, that “She’s the one that wears the tool-belt in our family” as they try to have a detailed conversation about whatever they are recommending or getting ready to do. This has been one of the flavors in our marriage that I think we…