My first job out of college was working in the health insurance industry. I was a licensed broker working as a consultant. My job was to support brokers as an “expert.” The number one rule of this job was that it was okay to admit that I didn’t have the answer. It was a necessity…
Yesterday I attended a memorial for Susan Lanfray. Susan wasn’t a close friend, but someone that I met eight years ago through an association that I am active in. We were never super close, but I always regarded her as one of the nicest people that I had ever met. Susan always smiled and made…
First fact: I’m 33. I like being 33. I don’t feel old; I don’t feel young. I found my first gray hair last week. My closest friends are 56, 33, 42, 61 and 26. With these friends, we never talk about age. We appreciate each other for who we are and what we have experienced.…
When I was little my Nana told me that I was pretty. When I was a teenager she told me that I was smart. These days I’m pretty sure she has no idea what my job is, but she tells me that she is proud of me. All of these things contributed towards my confidence.…
I will preface this post by saying that 1)I’m not a parent and 2)I had a pretty crappy childhood (don’t worry, I’ll write a book about it one day), but I have a lot of friends that are parents and I have a pretty cool nephew. That said, I have a feeling that this post…