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Month: February 2021

Three Essentials to Surviving Chaos

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Leave a comment

As the Coronavirus has become pandemic, spreading over our world, I’m going to share with you what I hope will be words of encouragement when the routines of our daily lives are being turned upside down. I see three essentials to surviving chaos. And those essentials are faith, hope, and love. I’m going to quote … Continue reading Three Essentials to Surviving Chaos

Katherine Johnson: Getting the Numbers Right

February 19, 2021February 18, 2021Leave a comment

History chooses whom to remember and whom to forget. And such was the case of African American women who worked for NASA in its early days as “human computers,” mathematicians, scientists and engineers. One of these highly intelligent and strongly motivated women was Katherine Johnson who died just about one year ago at the age … Continue reading Katherine Johnson: Getting the Numbers Right

Nuggets of Gold

February 12, 2021February 12, 20211 Comment

A few months ago I moved from the house where my late husband and I raised our three children, a modest three-bedroom house in the suburbs. He died young of colon cancer at the age of 52. So, he did not live long enough to hear the cheerful noise of grandchildren filling the rooms of … Continue reading Nuggets of Gold

Would You Hide Me?

February 5, 2021February 5, 20211 Comment

Recently I tuned into “Today with Hoda and Jenna” on NBC as I was eating my late breakfast. It was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 21—and in 2021 the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Polish concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. It caught my attention as I remembered the extreme sadness I felt when … Continue reading Would You Hide Me?

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