Year: 2011

  • Resentment

    Last week Anh Tran from our Consolidated Programs Division sent me a story that illustrates what we say and how we think about a situation can have a lasting effect.  It also teaches us that even if we find ourselves on the other side of negative or hurtful words, we always have a choice about…

  • Changes

    What great changes have not been ambitious?Melinda Gates

  • Character

    Character is higher than intellect.  A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Double Chocolate Cookies

    Makes about 3 dozenIngredients1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour½ cup Dutch-process cocoa powder½ teaspoon baking soda½ teaspoon kosher salt¼ pound 60%+ bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (4 ounces)¼ pound 60%+ bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped into ¼” chunks or chips (4 ounces)½ cup unsalted butter (4 ounces/1 stick)1½ cups sugar2 large eggs1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (or chocolate…

  • Forgiveness

    When people don’t forgive, they probably shorten their lives.Doris Donnelly

  • Vision

    A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.Orson Welles

  • Vision

    A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine de Saint-Exupery