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Roommates to the End
December 16, 2020I was in high school before I realized Betty Bowman had a name other than Roommate. “Roommate” was how...
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What Am I Doing in Grad School?
August 6, 2016I suspect this is a question I will ask myself from time to time over the next several years....
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It’s Nothing Personal. It’s Just Business.
January 10, 2016Otto Berman was, by all accounts, a brilliant mathematician. His early work as an accountant catapulted him to unprecedented...
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What if the Hokey Pokey Really Is What It’s All About?
January 16, 2015I’ve performed the hokey pokey in about half a dozen countries, with Mongolian guides in the Gobi desert and...
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The Sociopath at the Top
November 7, 2014Some salacious news hit my hometown a few days ago. Our relatively new and presumably high-performing public school superintendent...
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Pushing My Buttons
July 6, 2014I’ve been traveling with Cross Cultural Journeys for over 15 years now. It started with a life-changing walk across...
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Mother’s Day Redux
May 8, 2014I posted this piece last year as we neared Mother’s Day. I was still living in the jungles of...
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Employee Appreciation Day
March 5, 2014I used to have employees of the two-legged variety–and many of them remain good friends to this day. Nowadays,...
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The Easiest Valentine You’ll Ever Send
February 13, 2014It’s upon us—that annual event that sends us in panic to the store, wondering how we’ll survive it all....
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White Rose Love
January 14, 2014My time at Wake Forest was transformational. In four short years, I learned how to balance a checkbook, footnote...