Archive for February 2024

Today on Facebook, I saw someone post anonymously to ask for help. They are struggling with all that is coming at them, and they were hoping for some guidance. I shared a short version of my story leading to a priceless moment of mentoring earlier in my career. It was somewhere in the 1992-93 academic…

High school in the 1970s was so very different from what students experience today. One difference was the dress code. Boys couldn’t wear their hair below a standard shirt collar. They could however tuck their hair under a cheap wig. Some of them hid truly beautiful hair underneath the cheapest, nastiest wig you ever saw,…

Forty, or so, years ago on a hot September evening, I found myself working at a hamburger stand during the West Texas Fair and Rodeo. I was volunteering for the Abilene church I had recently joined, and this was their big fund-raiser each year. I worked there several times over a couple of years. We…

And suddenly we’re in February. I saw many folks on social media this month bemoaning the length of January, but I’ve always thought of February as the longest month. I don’t really know why, maybe because having grown up in the southern tier so I’m ready for spring by mid-February. Regardless, the year is well…