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    What a difference a year makes

    One year ago this week, I got an email from Sundance following up on a job I’d applied for. One of the dozen or so I’d applied for with them over the years, to be honest. I still don’t know what it was about me and my resume that convinced my soon-to-be manager to reach out to me, but I’ll be forever grateful. Because, whether she realizes it or not, The Email From Sundance (for it is of fabled proportions these days) set in motion a series of events that, though the getting through them wasn’t always easy, the end result has been more than worth it. And it may…

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    Creating our happiness

    Recently I’ve heard exciting news for three very deserving and very talented friends. Each, after working and planning and interviewing and working some more, was offered a new job in that exciting way where everyone knows it’s the organization that’s lucky to have gotten them rather than the other way around. While I celebrate from afar with these three wonderful women (alas, all three are based in the midwest), I can’t help but be even just a little bit proud. Not proud in that I had something to do with their success way, because I most certainly didn’t. But proud in that I’m so excited to cheer them on kind…