Tag: COVID-19

  • Hopes and Dreams

    Hopes and Dreams

    One of our family’s coping mechanisms during this pandemic has been our regular ritual of determining each family member’s hope and dream for the weekend. We each choose one thing to add to our often-lengthy chore and to-do list and, then, as a family, we do our best to make that hope and dream come…

  • Upending the Status Quo

    Upending the Status Quo

    Photo credit: L. Cunningham, US Air Force As someone whose mission is bringing about positive change in communities around transportation and mobility, I think a lot about the status quo. In mobility, the status quo is the exorbitant funding for roads compared to public transit. It’s the loss of vulnerable lives walking and riding bikes…

  • Welcome to the Rock…

    Welcome to the Rock…

    Photo credit: Zach Bonnell A few months ago, my wife and I took our 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son to see Come From Away at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Before going, all I knew about the show was that it told the story of the planes that were diverted to Newfoundland when the tragedy…