"Helping YOU Take Center Stage"!

A DECADE OF BIRTHDAYS ! On November 14, 2007 my daughter Sabrina Denise turned ten-years-old!! We have celebrated a DECADE OF BIRTHDAYS!! I remember her first birthday…the day she was born. It was a full moon and I did not have a planned Cesarean (C- Section) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section but at 8:00 PM and after eighteen (18) hours of labor and only seven (7) centimeters dilated Dr. Ship from Massachusetts General Hospital made a decision to perform the C-Section surgery. In came anesthesiologist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia Sunil (Sonny) Eappen (Matthew Eappen’s father) http://www.mattyeappen.org/team.htm then I was wheeled into an operating room with many other doctors and nurses. My arms were stretched out and were also strapped down so I could not move them. I felt like Jesus on the cross! There was a tiny green curtain that covered the Cesarean procedure from my view. I was not supposed see anything or feel anything…but admittedly I did! OUCH!! Only o...

FASHION FAUX PAUX!! Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.” John Fairchild {since I NOW know how to post pictures on my BLOG - I am adding this one on Oct 22, 2008 - and I just may be adding more to older posts - BUT I will let YOU decide - if you think my shirt is "NOT DISTRICT GOVERNOR MATERIAL" pun intended!! - I am the fifth one from the left or the forth one from the right} YIKES!! If I had only remembered my own July 3, 2007 Post on the Public Speaking Igroops http://www.igroops.com/igroops/publicspeaking "Try not to wear anything too revealing and it is best to wear a camisole under a shirt - especially if you are wearing a white or light colored blouse". On November 10, 2007 at my Toastmasters District 31 Fall Conference I committed a "FASHION DON'T"!! a "FASHION FAUX PAUX"!! a "WARDROBE MALFUNCTION"!! I wore a light pink top without a camisole and it kept s...

“FIND YOUR OWN STYLE”! TWO WORLD CHAMPIONS ONE EXCITING DAY! District 31 Toastmasters Builds Bridge with the National Speakers Association- New England Chapter, http://www.nsanewengland.com/ President, Stephen Shapiro steve@24-7innovation.com Phoenix at the 2007 Toastmasters International Convention! And from that day came a bridge with the Emerging Speakers Program. On Saturday November 3, 2007 in Natick Massachusetts the National Speakers Association - New England held it's monthly Chapter meeting in Natick Massachusetts with two featured guest speakers, Darren LaCroix and Vikas Jhingran ! Both Darren and Vikas are Toastmasters, both are the only two World Champions of Public Speaking ( WCPS ) from New England to win since the Toastmasters International speech contest began in 1938(!) and BOTH winners are from my home District 31 which covers eastern Massachusetts and the entire state of Rhode Island!! http://www.district31.org/ If you are not a Toastmaster - let me just ...