When I was in junior high, I sang in a church choir. I wouldn’t say I had a great voice but Fr. Gaffney always did say I had chutzpah! During my years at the Naval Academy that singing chutzpah translated into a walk on audition to land the lead role as Golde in Fiddler on the Roof my senior year. I think it was more chutzpah then singing for my solo ability that got me…
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Marching is just part of the learning to move together military culture – no matter the service. Part of the order and power of unity in drill movements is to order the ranks from tallest to shortest. And within that division, senior to junior in rank. When women were accepted to the military academies, it meant for the most part we were marching at the very back of the line. Everyone starts at the most…
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Competitive Swimming has been a part of my life since childhood. I can understand why my mother selected it for our family. She could get all the kids to one practice, at one time, all in one place with other adults yelling at us to keep going for two whole hours. What’s not for a mother to love? Swimming gave me many benefits. I made some great friends who were really focused. The long time…
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My father and I shared many things together. He raised a big family of 12. I am raising a big family of 9. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1942. I graduated from the Naval Academy in 1981. He was my biggest cheerleader during my naval service when his legacy in the Navy often impacted me, even though we were miles apart. There were several opportunities during this time when senior naval officers knew…
Leave a Comment“To “give thanks to Him for all things,” is, indeed, a very difficult duty; for it includes giving thanks for trials of all kinds; for suffering and pain; for languor and weariness; for the crossing of our wills; for contradiction; for reproaches; for loneliness; for privations. Yet they who have learned submission will not find it a hard duty; for they will so entirely love all that God wills and appoints, that they will see…
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