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Speech: What Is Your Passionate Gift?
The speech: What is Your Passionate Gift? (featuring the debut of the poem “I Won’t Tear You Down”) was given at the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) Champion’s Breakfast, October 3, 2019, at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, in...
Speech: Life is a Race
Prologue In May 2018, I was walking in the conference room section of the Peninsula Workforce Development Center (PWDC), at Thomas Nelson Community College. I was waved down by Dr. Val Livingston, who was the program director for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
Speech: The Departure… For Those Who Deploy
Prologue I had the opportunity to read the poem “The Departure...For Those Who Deploy” at a Women’s Veterans Conference, sponsored by the Virginia Employment Commission, in Hampton Virginia on Nov. 8, 2018. It was the first time it had been read publicly. I had...