October 2009 “I know I was going to refer to them as Daniel, David and Rose, but I think I need to use their actual names. I need to keep it real.”…
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“You are going to do this even if you have to fake it. Don’t fake it until you make it—fake it until you become it. ” Amy Cuddy …
Preface October 1977 “Tsk, Tsk. That must be so very hard for you.” The unexpected comment came from a stranger who had noticed my physical difference as my parents, brothers and…
Preface August 1986 “Why do you like her so much?” My grandmother Ruth and I were five flights up in my grandparents’ apartment in Yonkers, New York overlooking the Bronx River Parkway.…
“Never give in. Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never give in.”Winston Churchill (1941 commencement speech to his prep school.) Preface September 1986 “Meg, you…
Bus Driver: [after noticing Mrs. Doubtfire had hairy legs] I like that Mediterranean look in women. Natural, healthy. Just the way God made you. Mrs. Doubtfire: [modestly] Well, He broke the mold when…
Preface March 1978 She was talented. The way her separated, outstretched fingers reached out extended throughout the piece she was teaching us, elegantly. She was stunning. The way her raven-colored…
Preface December 1982 “Hey guys, over here!” My ten-year-old brother Ted had bolted out ahead of us toward the front of the line the Geodesic dome at Epcot. That winter,…
Preface January 2007 I wasn’t quite certain who was more in a state of shock, Ethan or me. We had been at the local Y where John and I had been…
Preface November 1985 “Why is he sitting out?” I was chatting with my friend Courtney, pointing with my sole finger to Matt, a fellow sophomore on the Urbana High School wrestling team.…
Preface September 1986 “Do you want to take it untimed?” I was taken aback at the question, not knowing exactly what it meant and its implications. I looked up with…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit…