Advice to a Wary College Graduate…40 Years Later

I had an epiphany last weekend. I toasted my nephew Sean on his graduation from Fairfield University and realized something — I graduated from the same school exactly 40 years ago! I couldn’t help wonder, if I could go back in time, what would I tell that excited, yet nervous young woman about the decades […]

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What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?

Many years ago I turned seventeen, so young and dewy, so eager to begin. If I could go back in time, what would I say to this insecure, vulnerable creature?  What would you say to your seventeen-old-self? Here’s what I’d tell mine… Be who you are, not whom you think you should be. I always […]

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