At My Graduation, My Dad Told 2,000 People Not to Clap — I Stepped Back to the Mic

that comes not from being unafraid but from having already thought through what you would do if this happened, and having done the work that made the thinking possible, and knowing that the work was documented and verified and sitting in a folder that had already passed through the right hands.

I knew something my father did not know.

Dr. Pauline Hartwell,continue reading …