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Learning… And Leaving

♦ May 21, 2018 ♦ 23 Comments

When I was working on my M.B.A., the most difficult class I took was Investment Finance. I was an English major (so naturally working as a typist/file clerk), and only had a superficial interest in business, but my employer was paying, and I did really like school. Of any kind. I seemed to have an …

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Music Lessons

♦ May 4, 2015 ♦ 54 Comments

When I was a little girl, my mother told me, “You can do anything you want.” But she added a caveat: “You won’t be good at everything, but you can do everything.” This was such sane advice. And as a result, I always felt a level of calm security entering into anything new. I could …

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