LaTanya Dionne

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

History in the trenches.

@TLinderbaum is officially the highest-paid center in NFL history!

#NFLHawks

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

Best of luck to our 5️⃣ Hawks in the @seniorbowl today!

⏰: 1:30 PM CST
📺: @nflnetwork

[Houston Texans @HoustonTexans]

Back to work 💪

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

From Iowa City to the NFL’s best.

First Team All-Pro ⬇️
@jackcampbell133 - Linebacker
@cooperdejean - Slot Cornerback

[G-MA & G-PA @GPAIndiana]

The World needs more people like this 💕💕 The Wife is amazing 🤗

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

Developed for the next level.

5️⃣ #NFLHawks selected to the Pro Bowl — 2nd most by any college.

#ProBowlGames

[The Analyst @analyst4sports_]

Noticing

[COACH PRIME @DeionSanders]

#Truth

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

💞💖💞

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Findlay Oilers @FindlayOilers]

𝕎𝕖𝕖𝕜 𝟙𝟚 | ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕠𝕗𝕗 ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨

A successful regular season leads to a postseason opportunity as the Oilers host Minnesota State in the first playoff game in Donnell Stadium since 1997.

See you at 1⃣ on Saturday!

#GoOilers | #BeGreat

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[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

I was about to say pond, but being from Michigan, pothole is better! 😂😂😂

[Fails of the Republic 🏛️ @FailsRepublic]

@Sadie_NC Here in Michigan we call it a pothole.

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

Watch til the end……this touched my heart! This man didn’t have to step up the way he did! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

There's a million Dante's out there that need a man like this in their life.

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@VJEickholt You MUST get away from the cold, come to a game and hang out with me in Tampa, annnndd maybe hit the beach!!! 💃🏾❤️🙌🏾😘

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

OMG……the worse, but best, longest night ever!!! We had such a ball that night……all the way until the last few minutes when I took that nighttime cold medicine, and was almost comatose! 😂 I miss and love you girlfriend! ❤️😘 Y’all bundle up, I’m heading to sunny Tampa! 🥰

[Valerie @VJEickholt]

Saturday...well, bundle up! 🥶☔️. Reminds me of this 'late' game filled with delays and inclimate weather but time spent with great peeps @RNElectrician.

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@VJEickholt The day we became the bestest of friends! We had an absolute ball that night! I miss you and times like these! I miss the collegiate game day experience, period. We fight every weekend, for a tailgate experience, like that of Iowa! Stay warm out there! Miss ya girlfriend! 💞💖💞

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@KristiGreen_ Let’s goooo💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@EEpenesa Love it bro! I have to make it to a game!!! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

Like this post if your team is 3-0

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@LaneshaBracy @Kaevon02 Thank you!

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

Congratulations son, Kaevon Merriweather @Kaevon02 ! Year 3 on the 53, as an UDFA! Nothing but God! 🙌🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

[Greg Auman @gregauman]

Bucs have set their initial 53-man roster:

QB: 2 -- Mayfield, Bridgewater
RB: 4 -- Irving, White, Tucker, Williams
WR: 7 -- Evans, Godwin, Egbuka, Tez, Shep, Miller, KJohnson
TE: 4 -- Otton, Durham, Culp, Kieft
OL: 8 -- Wirfs, Bredeson, Barton, Mauch, Goedeke, Heck, Klein, Chukwuma

DL:  5 -- Vea, Kancey, Hall, Gaines, Roberts
OLB: 5 -- Diaby, Reddick, Braswell, Nelson, Watts
LB: 4 -- David, Dennis, Jones, Bullock
CB: 6 -- Dean, McCollum, Morrison, Parrish, VIldor, Hayes
S: 5 -- Winfield, Smith, Izien, Merriweather, Wisdom

K McLaughlin, P Dixon, LS Deckers

[LaTanya Dionne @RNElectrician]

@PhilParkersHat @Kaevon02 I love this so much! Truly sums up how I’m feeling at the present! 💃🏾😁