I graduated summa cum laude from Southern New Hampshire University on April 30. This was a pandemic project started in April 2020. Many of us decided to make changes in our lives in those dark pandemic days, and I chose a project pointed towards hope. I graduated from high school in 1983 (should have been 1982, but I was determined to be the very worst student I could be. Nailed it!) and never thought Iād go to college. It only took four decades but I finally got around to it. In July I start in on a MFA program at the University of Hartford.