Thanksgiving is going to be very different this year, less people on the couch watching football and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Like everything this year, things are trying to exist, with modifications. The parade will happen, with fewer entries and no spectators. That is still on my bucket list, seeing that parade live and…
Month: November 2020
The Importance of Traditions
There is something comforting about traditions, especially around the holidays. I grew up as an only child, and all of my extended family lived on the East Coast. I didn’t have many big family gatherings growing up, and my mom liked to keep things small and simple. When my parents split when I was a…
Gratitude Looks Different in a Pandemic
It’s Thanksgiving break, normally a time I would be ramping up for a big family gathering, seeing friends I have missed over the course of the semester, and planning for the flurry of events that start now and end the first week of January. But these are different times. Gratitude looks different in a pandemic….
Because I Told Them Public Writing Matters
It has been a long time since I came back to this space. I have wanted to, I have written countless posts in my head. I kept thinking someday, then put it on my Sunday morning calendar, and I watched them come and go. So today I am working on an Op-Ed unit for my…