"You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you will not be the last."
Like many of us, I spent a lot of time glued to the election results last week. However, I have to admit that until the election results were announced, I did not spend much time thinking about Kamala Harris' many firsts. This in itself is notable - it was almost a side note to me, which in years past, it would've stood out. But in recent elections, we have almost always had a female in the race (save 2012), and so the good news is that it felt like less of a big deal. When the race was called, and in particular, watching the video that she tweeted about her call with Biden when she learned that the race had been called, I was - quite unexpectedly - moved to tears at the gravity of her being the first female. Couple that with on the other side of the aisle, the GOP adding a record number of women to the house. Without assessing Kamala Harris' policy beliefs or positions, I had noted that I - and others - responded in wildly different ways to her in ways that we don't t