Category Archives: Stories and Debriefings
Playing Elf – Unexpected Benefit of Keeping a Gift Journal
I had an unexpected success this Christmas that highlights how important it is to keep a gift journal. We had picked out a gift for my sister in-law about a month in advance. My wife wanted to make her something so she needed lead time. A few weeks before Christmas, though, I overhead a conversation … Continue reading
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A Gift That Said “You Stink!”
She was mortified by the gift. Years ago her mom, Karen, decided to buy a present for one of her cousins, Jane. Now as it happens her mom did not know Jane very well but at the time she was seventeen so Karen thought that a gift of beauty products would be a ‘safe’ gift. … Continue reading