Category Archives: Learning

So What’s New?

So what’s new? Few points in recent history could have so many profound responses to such a simple question from every person in a society, and yet, here we are. Until a few hours before this blog entry was due, … Continue reading

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Recovering from Three Fractures

My last few months have been dominated by working to recover from an accident that broke my dominant wrist (both radius & ulna) and collarbone. It has been a humbling, frustrating, and sometimes even an uplifting experience. Since two weeks … Continue reading

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A different kind of CV

Conversations with friends, colleagues, and classmates often revolve around missteps in our personal and professional lives. Most of us recognize that failing is part of life and, to a degree, we understand that it helps us grow. We read about … Continue reading

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I’ll be happy when…

For as long as I can remember, my life has always been structured with an obvious overarching goal in mind. When I was six, I started attending school, and from then on, my main goal was to graduate elementary school; … Continue reading

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Life Lessons from The Talking Dead

Winding down from the three-day Labor Day weekend I found myself on Hulu streaming a 2017 HLN episode of Inside with Chris Cuomo, The Talking Dead. It was late Monday night, I was procrastinating from turning in and so I … Continue reading

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Embracing the uncomfortable

Coming out of my Negotiations class on a rainy April afternoon, I was feeling quite disappointed. We had just completed an exercise on a multi-party negotiation for the development of a fictional new port on the East Coast, and I … Continue reading

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Lessons learned from the slopes

In the winter, my family spends almost every weekend skiing. This season we eagerly started in mid-November at Mount Snow, VT. The following weekend we skied at Bretton Woods, NH. All this while we waited for Ragged Mountain, NH to … Continue reading

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It’s Amazing What A Simple Kind Word Can Do

It’s been five months since I’ve written a blog post and of course I am tempted to write about the Patriots’ sixth Super Bowl championship. This win is a gift to blocked writers across New England, a blog softball lobbed … Continue reading

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It’s a Waterfall, not a Sprint!

Last week, I walked out of the Harvard Vanguard in Fenway as an official graduate of their physical therapy rehabilitation program for Achilles tendonitis. Four months earlier, I had decided that I was going to run the Boston Marathon. I … Continue reading

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I once heard a grain of sand say….

I once heard a grain of sand say; “time under reflection gives one the space to think about how to direct one’s anxieties- whether to have them, what to worry about, what to fear, and what to just kind of … Continue reading

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