Dateline: West Point, January 5, 2016 2016 is the decennial anniversary of women’s admittance to West Point. Fittingly, the year began with a historic moment for women. Brigadier General Diana Holland, USMA Class of 1990, became the first woman Commandant of Cadets at West Point on 5 January. Lieutenant General Robert Caslen described Diana’s assumption of command…
At the end of Beast, New Cadet Training, we assembled for a lecture. Jubilant at having survived this formidable introduction to West Point, we were soon put in our places. Colonel Kirby projected a bar graph showing our progress as cadets within the total USMA experience. After the hardest 7 weeks of my life, the segment we had…
These immortal words were uttered by my good friend Gary, upon the birth of my daughter Jocelyn. He was quoting an illustrious line from a Dick Van Dyke show that spawned a generation of great “new baby” presents. I have always been impressed by the comic genius of Dick Van Dyke – in fact I…
IndexCardCure™: helping guide aspirations to action
So Christmas Day is past and…we begin the mental slide from silent-night-all-is-calm-all-is-bright, right into weighing and measuring and emotional bookkeeping. Replete with our annual mental house cleaning, time to re-shuffle the deck, making note of memories and regrets and lessons learned, readying for the New Year. Terry Hershey, Sabbath Moment Some people may not appreciate the accounting process…
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