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Hi, I’m Gina Stafford, a communications, marketing and public relations executive in the higher education field.
I’m also a first-generation college graduate, so I know firsthand the transformational power of higher education and I’m motivated every day to pay forward all that I’ve gained from experts and mentors who took the time and an interest in helping show me the way. Now and then, I have a personal or professional experience I think is worth sharing and I do that here.
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Is this still Music City?
I grew up 90 minutes from Nashville, and I’ve been to concerts and shows in every kind of venue there, many times. Except for one–the one, the Ryman Auditorium. I’d never set foot in that hallowed hall until this week, when I had a date with Bob Dylan. I know plenty of people have a […]
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Only Two Years?
COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic two years ago today, give or take. Or so they say. It was a lifetime ago, from where I sit. So much has happened, I thought I’d catch you up. For me, the start of the pandemic will always be punctuated by my father’s death in February 2020. Just […]
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Hello and Welcome!
Thank you for stopping by. Whether you’re new here or a return visitor, my apologies up front for the long amount of time since I last wrote a new post. That one was at the beginning of 2020…followed in just a few weeks by the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Responding to the […]
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2020 Resolved
If New Year’s resolutions are actual, binding commitments, then no, I would say I’m not inclined to make them. To the extent the close of one year is a time of reflection on the 12 months just ended with thoughts on goals or what I could do better in the 12 months ahead, then yes, I […]
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Twenty-five years since the unthinkable
One year after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Tech University with a double major in English and journalism, I was working as a reporter for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Four years later, I was covering the story of my reporter life: A young family gunned down for their car. The story came to me as […]
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2020 Resolved
If New Year’s resolutions are actual, binding commitments, then no, I would say I’m not inclined to make them. To the extent the close of one year is a time of reflection on the 12 months just ended with thoughts on goals or what I could do better in the 12 months ahead, then yes, I […]
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Auld Lang Syne to the Good Times
In a few hours and with a flip of the calendar, it’ll be 2020. Just like that, we’re already closing the door on the first 20 years of the 21st century. And don’t look now, but here comes a leap year, an Olympics year and another election year. I won’t necessarily leap; I definitely won’t […]
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