With appreciation to Leah Swartz, Journalism student at the University of Kansas, who asked how I would suggest connecting with a large group of people when time or distance or other obstacles rule out truly getting to know them on an individualized, face-to-face, one-on-one basis, I’ve been pondering the notion of what I will call […]
Author: Alana
Break Bread
As my family and I celebrate the Festival of Passover, I can’t seem to shake the thought of breaking bread. In early March, a friend – who I came to know through work – his wife and daughters, invited my family to dinner in their home. It was the three of us, a young couple […]
Laugh… A Lot!
It’s April 1st and I grinned all morning about the best April Fool’s prank that I ever pulled. It was in college. My friend, Megan, and I saved soda cans for a month, then at midnight on April 1st, we quietly built a wall of cans outside our friend, Abby’s, dormitory door. When Abby emerged […]