Light Bulb Quest
As a mid-career professional, searching for employment can be a slog. It involves the same routine tasks day in and day out. It’s nowhere near as interesting or rewarding as anything I’ve ever done to actually earn a paycheck. It’s not physically strenuous but it is emotionally draining. It can also be dispiriting. Each time […]
Ten days after I lost my job, I started a new one. After 15 years in higher education I found myself at Brown. Not the university. Brown, as in United Parcel Service, the global shipping company. For the past four-plus months my alarm has awakened me every Tuesday through Saturday at 2:30 am. That’s when […]
On March 13th, 2020, I was practicing a hula dance when the pandemic first hit home for me. Each spring, students at the university I’d worked at put on a lavish luau to celebrate the food and culture of the Hawaiian Islands. The program regularly featured faculty and staff from across the campus performing a […]