Category Archives: Reading
Delayed Deliverance
Ticket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After my husband, Kevin, died of cancer at 49, I packed it away on a shelf, unopened. Now, a decade later, it was time to look. I didn’t expect to … Continue reading
Systemic Racism
Re: “Olympics miss the mark on inclusion” [July 11, Opinion]: The most significant story of this moment after a year of racial reckoning is the continuing institutional degradation of Black women athletes even as their achievements are celebrated. A few examples must … Continue reading
Teaching
To teach is to transform, and when you transform someone, it ripples throughout their life. Women are the primary educators in the home, and when you help a woman, she helps her child, and her child helps their child.” Positively … Continue reading
Real-World Superheroes!
They are fighting day in, day out for their communities, they are sacrificing their own physical and mental health sometimes just to take care of other people — and to me, seeing that was really inspiring.” Alisha Nguyen Positively Purging – … Continue reading
Constancy in Candy
My grandmother kept a candy bowl on a table by her front door. Growing up, I would sneak butterscotches and strawberry sweets. During the pandemic, my grandmother moved into assisted living. On my first visit after lockdown, I saw how … Continue reading
