I have been reading every book in the library about Ellis Island Immigration for a new children’s book I am writing, and taking the virtual tour offered by Scholastic on the Ellis Island website over and over again to get a sense of what the Immigrants experienced. I finally decided that I just had to…
What’s trending in summer 2015? Navy.The color that is. Even though we knew what stylist, Wendy Pilch was referring to, her comment didn’t go over well with West Point Women attending a lunch and learn at KornFerry hosted by Kate Kohler, USMA ’96. Liz Halford, USMA ’88 had the best rebuttal when she reframed, “Put navy to…
This week I have been crutching around Europe observing the journey from the perspective of a not-quite-healthy traveler. Even though little girls look suspiciously at me from their strollers as I crutch on by, I have had my optimistic faith that life is good and that most people are basically good confirmed on an international…
What kind of people do you like to be around? Are you interested in hanging out with friends who got straight A’s in school, graduated number one in their class or qualified for the NCAA championship in their sport? Those achievements are exciting and rewarding for the individual who accomplishes them, but we don’t use…
Since I wrote about healthcare proxies last week, I discovered that you can download them for free, including instructions for how to complete them. Now there is really no excuse not to have them executed! Just put “healthcare proxy” into a search engine (i.e. “Google® it”). There are usually forms at the official government sites of…
