Lee Woodruff

SPEAKER – AUTHOR – EXECUTIVE MEDIA TRAINER

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KEEP YOUR OAR IN THE WATER

My own mother’s words loomed large before I got pregnant, “do the things you want to do before you get married and have babies.”  And it was great advice.  By the time I gave birth to our first child, I had climbed the ladder in the marketing world, traveled and lived overseas.  My dream was to write a book and although I had cranked out a few measly  ...

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Family

A Young Musician Follows His Dreams

This weeks contribution from my sis Nancy….. The Friday assembly at Rippowam Cisqua School was a full circle moment in our family. Alum and singer song-writer Collin McLoughlin returned to the place where he fist got up on a stage to sing. I can remember his role as “Tartan” the male lead in the school musical 14 years ago. Especially  ...

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Cooking Family

Happy Valentine’s Day

Recipes are the currency by which generations of women define and distinguish themselves from other families.  These sometimes secret formulas, handed down from mother to daughter, are inscriptions of endearment, the personal stamp encrypted in each dish like DNA.  For my husband’s family, it’s the rutabaga recipe at Thanksgiving and the corn and  ...

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Beauty of Eating-Good food really does cure all

This weeks contribution from my sis Nancy on Clean Eating….. The biggest change to hit our house since the invention of Tivo and the discovery of Foodpanda service – is Jodi McGinty, a cross between Heidi Klum and mother nature. She makes her living in other people’s kitchens as a “whole and living foods” chef. It started with a non-specific  ...

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