This week, The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis lost two elders of our 100-year old movement to bolster democracy by providing educational opportunity. Today, I am grieving the loss of …
Give People Their Roses
Unbeknownst to him at the time, Darion Williams solved my dilemma about how to write a centennial year-end post. I just couldn’t bring myself to write the words pandemic, unprecedented, …
Student Loans: Five Years of Amicable Divorce
Brace yourself for a non-partisan and plainly stated call to action. It matters not what party you support or the political persuasion of the debtors in question. The federal student …
2020 Endorsements from a Prophet
You really never know which one in the room is the prophet. Richard Atkins, an architect in private practice, served on the board of directors of The Scholarship Foundation from …
Loving People
I’m calling our attention to love. In the midst of partisan rancor, governance without civility, and professionalizing ourselves away from seeing another person’s pain, so many of us are physically …
3 AM Thinking – Part Two
This is a reminder that dawn comes even when we have no reason to believe that it will. This morning, I was awake at 3:00 A.M. The house was dark …