#OTR50 Day 98: Parent’s Day

Every day that we have any special people in our lives who served the roles of nurturing our minds, bodies, and souls. […]

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#OTR50 Day 93: Parisian Graffiti

Would I be a silent and secret artist | Building up the courage courage courage | Waiting to be inspired by an unexpected canvas | Spontaneously stopping in my tracks to paint […]

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#OTR50 Day 84: I am the Mountain

I was the mountain I had to move | And now I am moving | […] If I move my mountain without direction, I may circle in place […]

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#OTR50 Day 76: Home

Smiling puppy in the yard!

I am thrilled to be heading home! This has been perhaps the longest back to back travel stint in my 12 years with this job. I write this from the Montreal Trudeau Airport awaiting my flight. I’m worn out from many long days and not a great deal of sleep, but I am also energized […]

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#OTR50 Day 65: 300 Yet to Come & a Poem

Can you imagine how motivating it would be if more of our personal ideas and inspirations had that kind of reaction? While I know not all ideas are worthy of an all-in rah-rah friendship reaction.  However, imagine if most of them did. […]

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#OTR50 Day 54: Endurance

Apparently, last night I wrote a second Day 53 Post. I truly was exhausted! Another day and another dollar – it’s Day 54. A Friday. A work day. I had teleconferences in my hotel room all morning beginning with an early am EST call with volunteers and staff working on a Singapore activity and then […]

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#OTR50 Day 51: I’m no Michelangelo

Yesterday I wrote about having written 50 days of posts about trying to get in tune all the aspects of me that contribute to a capacity to write. This was in my closing: Another day, another idea. Perhaps the next big writing idea will be the one that grows into something worthy of saving, worthy […]

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#OTR50 Day 49: Incognito Hair

over 6,000 photos in my phone. Of all the pictures of me, selfies included, these are the only 5 I could find of me with straightened hair. […]

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#OTR50 Day 47: It’s Not About Me

I’ve been writing a good deal about me while only skimming the surface of me as a parent. Per my earlier posts regarding convergence. For those that know me well, this is beyond unusual. That aspect of myself that is a parent – it usually is the essence of entire conversations. My kids and parenting […]

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#OTR50 Day 40: Pesach

I’ve 20 minutes left in the day and the laptop is dead. It’s been non-stop all day so I shouldn’t really be surprised by this. I ran a Webex this morning for work. (Yes, I know it’s a “vacation” week but c’est la vie.) Anyhow, since all three of the teens were home for the […]

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