I feel like it’s so infrequently these days that we’re moved to tears by inspiring - rather than heartbreaking - stories. On Saturday, I was fortunate enough to attend the book signing for Do Your Giving While You are Living and have such an experience. It was truly a gift to hear from - and later meet - the phenomenal contributors to this book!

Rather than reading the panelists’ impressive bios, the moderator asked that each share a personal story. How did…

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I was facing an interesting dilemma this week: whether to stay in Washington on January 20th, the much-anticipated Inauguration Day. The same day for which millions of people are paying thousands of dollars! And it would be FREE for me since I live right here. Except I need to get to a conference in Florida and, unfortunately, it begins the day after. And if I don’t fly on the 20th chances are I’ll miss some of it. So what to…

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First of all, happy New Year and welcome to 2009! I hope it will become your most fulfilling, lucrative, successful and joyful year yet!

I am really not sure what happened to 2008 or my resolution to consistently post interesting, entertaining and insightful posts to this blog. I believe this is proof, once again, that resolutions don’t work for most human beings with 1) a life 2) a million other important priorities 3) way more interests - and good intentions -…

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