It will come as no surprise to those who have worked with me that one of my favorite words is “steady.” It is the word I reached for when I had heard that President Kennedy had been shot. It was the word that I cautioned the world to heed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as we were recoiling in a state of shock and horror. Many times I felt anxiety closing in, when my heartbeat quickened and my world began to wobble, and I repeated to myself, “Steady.”
