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Creating…Connections
My favorite childhood game required several participants and usually began with an excited plea that morphed into a lawyer’s level of skillful persuasion. My zeal for the game was matched by my older sister’s bane. To this day, the start of game play is still linked with two words that sliced the air with their…
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What’s Your Conversational Legacy?
“Melissa, someone could become enlightened watching a piece of trash roll past them.” These were the provocative words of the guiding teacher at the meditation center where I practice. At the time, his words felt a bit irreverent, but they lingered with me. My fourth-grade teacher was the first to say, “Melissa, you have a…
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What’s Hidden?
It has been decades since I have been laughed at… And when it recently happened at work, I found myself both confused and aware of a sensitive child still residing within me. At the time, I was helping a pair of young women, who I suspect would be considered Gen Z, when one of them…
