Connecting Across Cultures
How in the heck are you doing?! Have you survived the ups and downs and craziness of the past year? I know a lot has happened in my life since I last posted β and I’m sure the same goes for you. After publishing my last blog post in June of 2020, I decided to…
Pockmarks or Polka Dots? My three-year-old niece sits beside me, looking at my face. She touches my left cheek, and in her adorable little sing-songy voice she exclaims: “You have polka dots!” In a split second, many thoughts come to me: How, in my early 20s, my skin was so bad that I
The year 2000 was special for those of us who remember it. Collectively, we survived the ill-founded fears of Y2K unscathed. And on the eve of the new millennium, we partied to Prince like it was 1999. When we awoke on the first of the first, we were thankful to be alive! Grateful that the…