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When Michael asked me to be his plus one for the Beit T’Shuvah gala fund raiser I immediately said yes. My dad is the medical director there. Naturally it would be great fun to see friends who are also supporters...

                                               To Mariam Joon, The world would be brighter if we took the time to learn and understand other cultures. So, with the Persian New Year approaching, I began to research how Nowruz is celebrated. Beyond the haftsin table and...

I can’t stop thinking about time. The 11th of March will clock 28,382,400 minutes of my sixth-decade existence.    How many of those were spent being purposeful? How many being generous? How many took my breath away?   When my...

I had no idea that International Women’s Day originated back in 1909 in New York City as a labor movement. It inspired European demonstrations the following year that were seen in Germany and Russia. Almost 70 years later, the UN...

This morning, I was reminded of this story I wrote on February 18, 2015, days after my mom passed away.   My parents have been married for 17,512 days, just 8 days shy of 48 years. Tonight we were supposed...

I filled out a questionnaire for a trade show I love to attend. “What three words best describes you?”   My mind immediately raced to how I perceive myself as anxious, unbalanced, and shy. Then I thought about how others...