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The Voice of Fear
by Diane Elayne Dees
Changing my career was not easy. Many people said "Good for you!" and "I know you'll do well." But there were a few who said "Aren't you afraid to do that?" and "Oh, I'd be too afraid to make that big a change" and "How can you manage that?" Fear is not a valid reason to avoid taking action. Risk involves fear.
Fly Away Home
by Lucinda Nelson Dhavan
With no room to pace in my shared apartment, I paced the cold streets of Boston all of one February day, having a lonely lunch and too much espresso in the North End, while I asked myself, over and over, if I dared to do it. Did I dare marry the man I'd met in India?
Music and Missed Chances
by Kay Sexton
In my second week in Beijing I found myself in the middle of a Chinese park singing "Can't Get You Out of My Head" while three middle-aged fan dancers practiced in front of me. It was two choruses and three mumbled verses of sheer hell.
Flying Close To The Sun - Taking risks, doing what they said can't be done, we want to hear about the daring ... the big, big successes and the it-was-worth-it-all-even-tho'-I-didn't-make-it other kind of success.
Camphor Love
by Katie Weekley
My pulse quickened when I found a sealed camphor plaster. It looked pretty old and, since the instructions looked to be written in Chinese, I couldn't tell if there was an expiration date. Could camphor, a natural product, go bad? My muscles were already trying to win the argument, tensing up with you-need-it-so-bad conviction. What could go wrong?