Tag Archives: conversation
HBCU Change
The country’s Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) face financial challenges, but a new app simplifies the process of supporting them. HBCU Change allows you to link credit and debt cards to the platform. With each purchase, the app rounds … Continue reading
Stronger Than You Think
There’s the Bob Marley quote that you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. I’d like to add a few more adjectives there besides strong, as in, you never know how strong, resilient, creative, … Continue reading
He Kept Falling for Me
For seven years I tried to make it work, but his height came between us. Joe Pye Weed was so tall that he would routinely fall over, relying on me for support. We both looked silly. He was gorgeous when … Continue reading
RANT
RANT to time changes. Washington has failed to continue in the fight for the end of twice-a-year time changes. At one point, pre-pandemic, this state had requested yearlong daylight saving time. That meant no more time changes. Somehow, we are still … Continue reading
Around the Lake
For three decades, Jo Ann and I spent Friday afternoons walking around Minnesota’s Lake Winona. We walked through pregnancies and miscarriages, through homeopathy school and university tenure, through Weight Watchers and evolving wardrobes, through caring for daughters (and sometimes their … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 