~Monday~ You may (or not) remember my blog entry from Tuesday, October 29, 2013, in which I talked about being a “sustainer donor” to Love Wins Ministries, and then issued this challenge: If 10 people become sustainer donors to Love Wins Ministries, in the amount of $10, $20, or $25 (or more!) a month, between … Read more
If you listen to public radio — particularly to WUNC in Chapel Hill — then you’ve undoubtedly heard several people over the course of the last couple of weeks of the station’s fall fundraiser talk about how they are sustainer donors to public radio through that local NPR affiliate of ours. I am not a … Read more
~Thursday~ Each year the organization I work in, the Office of Information Technology at NC State University, sponsors two or three organizations as part of its Holiday Giving Project. As I did back in 2009, I put forth Love Wins Ministries as one of those organizations for this year’s project, and it was accepted. Over … Read more
~Saturday~ I was up at 6:30 and off to NC State at 7:15 for a 7:30 departure with the Alternative Spring Break 2011 Gulf Coast team for an all-day retreat out at the Braemar Habitat for Humanity site in Zebulon, NC. It worked out that we had four cars going, so I drove separately and … Read more
~Monday~ The 8:15 city bus arrived at 8:26. Who’s keeping track? I had just dialed the CAT line and had been instructed to “Press 1 to continue in English,” when screaming sirens came up so fast and so close that I couldn’t hear anything on the other end of the line, so I hung up. … Read more
~Wednesday~ I walked up to the bus stop at 8:19 and the bus arrived at 8:20. I love it when that happens. When I boarded there was a city bus newbie, who was asking the bus driver at which stop he should get off in order to catch a connector to somewhere. I walked around … Read more
~Tuesday~ Xolani and I were up and on the 7:45 bus again this morning. Sometimes it feels like Groundhog Day standing at the bus stop, when day after day the bus is on the later side rather than the earlier side, and when the long, yellow school bus passes by at the same time. A … Read more
~Friday~ I left my house at around 8:30 this morning by car, taking a run down to the newly renovated Avent Ferry Technology Center, into which part of my work organization has recently moved. There, I collected two boxes and a few bags of things that people who work in that building had donated to … Read more
~Tuesday~ The prodigal son (that would be me) returned to the city bus today and although it was my standard 8:15 ride, none of my characters were aboard or boarded en route to my work. An African-American man sat across the aisle from me on my row, and he wore brown sunglasses—for what reason I … Read more
~Monday~ I drove in to work this morning, so no buscapdes. I was very cranky today, so I just stayed as much to myself as possible at work. I attended an hour-long meeting, which was scheduled right smack dab in the middle of lunch (11:30-12:30), and that didn’t help my mood any. A friend of … Read more