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    Developing Your Wings

    How many times have you done something really scary? I’m not talking about bungee jumping or cliff diving (although if you’ve done those things, they certainly count.) I’m talking about the sorts of things…

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    The Myth of The Right Time

    Two of the students who appeared in my classes this past year were non-traditional. That’s the academic way of saying they didn’t complete college in the years between 18 and 23. They’re both in…

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    Making Hard Choices

    Most of us have faced hard choices at some point in our lives. Do I take that new job for a better salary, even though it’s going to mean a longer commute? Do I…

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    How to Pack the Perfect Carry-On Bag

    Are you a carry-on-only person? In this era of pay-to-check baggage fees–and serious restrictions on what you can bring into the cabin of an airplane–more and more people are moving in this direction. Mike…

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    How to Avoid Travel Disasters

    Mike and I are anxiously preparing to travel to London and Edinburgh over Spring Break. It’s been a couple of years since I journeyed outside the country, so this week I’ve been making an…

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    Jump and See

    Do you have a motto—words that you try to live by, or words that express the way you live your life? I know many people who use pieces of scripture for that purpose (although…

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    Good Morning, Better Day

    Recently I came across this article about the morning routines of 21 “successful” women. (I’m putting “successful” in quotation marks there because it’s subjective. I think we each have our own definition of success.)…