How I learned to stop worrying and love slinging packages

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 […]

Covid killed my dream job. It can’t kill my dreams.

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 […]