Not necessarily about my looks, but in second grade when they handed out the school pictures parents had ordered, I didn’t get an envelope to take home. Not a big deal, I thought, Mom and Dad just didn’t buy pictures this year.

Then when I was walking off the bus with my little brother later that afternoon, I noticed…

When I was an exchange student in Norway, there was a popular brand of salt licorice called “Rusty Nails”, which I thought was a pretty good approximation of what they tasted like.

Honestly, as someone who works for one of the federal agencies responsible for implementing PEPFAR, my first reaction to reading the announcement of this extra funding was to groan and close my eyes.

None of what I am about to say is meant to denigrate PEPFAR’s many achievements in any way. Of course, OF COURSE,…