Marble Falls I’ve been trying to follow the ping-pong ball back and forth on arguments about the Biden administration’s one-time student loan relief program of between $10 and $20,000 for eligible borrowers making less than $125,000 a year and Pell Grant recipients. Some are arguing this is a middle-class welfare program, increasing inequity. …
Category: Personal Writings
Fair Grinds, Thanks for the Memories
New Orleans October 15, 2011 was our first day running Fair Grinds Coffeehouse in New Orleans, the only 100% fairtrade coffeehouse in the city. The name, we inherited with the sale, was a mashup of fairtrade coffee, and the fact that we were only a couple of blocks from the Fair Grounds horse …
Just Another Day
Pearl River Normally, I’m pretty nonchalant about birthdays. Not other peoples, I should quickly add, but certainly my own. My standard lines when that time of year would come around would be one of two, either “hey, just another day” or “another birthday is so much better than the alternatives.” As the days rise …