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Hooray for Writing

Part 0: BLUF This post explores some reasons to invite more writing time into your life’s journey, and some tactics for using writing to up your personal and professional game, even in an era of tighter timelines and shorter attention spans. Summary in blue. Part I: Some reasons to love writing Anyone who knows me

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Fifty Suns

People like to think in terms of “years-old”, and other folks contend we should be thinking in “years-young.” I have discarded years altogether. It’s just journeys around the sun on the best spaceship we have ever known: our own blue miracle, Planet Earth. I’ve recently completed my 50th trek. I’ve had a few people innocently

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Thoughts for MLK Day

I certainly am not a civil rights expert, nor am I well read on the writings of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. However, a certain energy inspired me today and I ended up writing a few thoughts in my journal about today. Let me share: I suspect my ancestors intentionally boarded a boat, some

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