Posted in creativity, Darden, experience, New York on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Disconnect / Reconnect My Darden email address is being deactivated tomorrow. I didn’t anticipate the emotion that would come along with this. I took my laptop to the helpdesk and Randy helped me to back up all my old files and emails and then I went off of the domain. The background picture on my [...]
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Posted in cancer, experience, family, health, mother on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why does a burning platform need to emerge before we adopt change? I wish it didn’t take life altering events to help me get my priorities in order. I wish I could always find what Alec Horniman, one of my professors, calls “a clearly perceived better way.” I am always amazed how the shortest conversations [...]
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Posted in experience, fear, swim on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dear Terrified Adults My Uncle Tom always tells me if I’m not in debt and not afraid at least 50% of the time then I’m not doing enough with my life. Whether or not that’s true, it’s been a great comfort to me since I’ve been in debt for over a decade now, and have [...]
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Posted in South Africa, travel on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s early in the morning and I am up typing this article because the jet lag is still messing with me. I just returned on Tuesday from my first trip to South Africa. When I met South Africans and they asked how I liked their country I would say that I was struck by the [...]
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Posted in change, Darden, experience, family, graduation, grandmother, happiness on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Sense of Place May 20th would have been my grandmother’s 88th birthday so my Darden graduation on that date has a dual-significance for me: it is the celebration of my greatest academic accomplishment and of a woman whom I consider to be my greatest teacher. She was born Sarah Louise Gagliardi, though I knew [...]
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