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This past spring, Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes became the first full-time staff member in the 40-year history of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC)...

This is my last column as editor of this newsletter. This might come as a surprise or not. After all, I have written about the temptation to quit m...

Two things happened to me in 2021, which feel more important than all of the rest. I turned 41 and lost my dad within the span of a month. During t...

My dad died two months ago after a four-year battle with stage 4 brain and lung cancer. We knew it was coming. That didn’t make it any easier. Love...

There are two news stories that I can't get out of my head. They've haunted me ever since I first read them. One is about the pandemic. The other i...

It was the oatmeal that did me in. My gluten-free oatmeal that I shove in the microwave a couple of mornings a week. As I prepared my breakfast, I ...

It's another week. Another Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. It doesn't matter what day it is. It's another day preceded by another night in which I ...

In the span of a week, Bill Cosby was released from prison and a judge denied Britney Spears' request to end her conservatorship. Two seemingly unr...

A few years ago, I was on a walk around the neighborhood with my partner. As I huffed up yet another hill, I turned to him and asked, “Do you think...

Recently, I re-watched Captain Marvel (2019) with my family. We're sort of Marvel nerds, and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) is one of our favorite su...

I made a mistake. Actually, I made two mistakes in the span of two weeks. These weren't the tiny everyday mistakes that happen with or without our ...

A few months ago, I had a video call with a physician's assistant. I had called a bit frantically days before. I couldn't fall asleep at all or I w...

I'm angry. Again. I'm trying to answer the emails that overflow my inbox and convince a first grader to please for the love of all that is good and...

In the late afternoon on Jan. 6, an email landed in my inbox. I didn't notice it at first. My eyes had been glued to Twitter and various news sites...

I used to be a “glass half‐full” kind of person. I used to be optimistic. Optimism has never been my natural state of being. I'm not convinced that...

It's November, the day after the election and after my new book was published. I'm once again sitting at my dining room table or, as I like to call...

I've hit the wall again. During the months and months of COVID‐19 pandemic, I've lost count of how many times. Life is manageable until it isn't. E...

There's a photo of a redwood tree that made the rounds on social media. It's by Randy Vazquez. The tree is in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Califo...

There are a lot of things I keenly miss from before the pandemic: the ability to be near people rather than separated by at least six feet; the abi...

It's May, and I'm sitting at my dining room table. It's covered in pencils, crayons, scissors, worksheets and overstuffed binders. The table is now...