As I look back now, I can see the pattern. He made it perfectly clear that he was not going to invest himself in putting thought and effort into how he treated me (or generally, the kids). If he had always been careless about gift giving or just was really bad at picking out gifts […]
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Which end of the elephant are you looking at?
Which end of the elephant are you looking at? There is a very old fable, told in several versions and claimed by a number of groups. It is generally about a very large elephant and 6 wise men who were blind. One day the elephant comes to the village and causes a stir so they […]
Beyond “What do you want to be?”
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” For some, the answer comes spilling out of their mouth even as a child, generally as a career objective, a basketball player, a teacher, a doctor, and so on. But for many of us, (some of us many more decades in than we will […]