**Trigger Warning: mentions of violence and experiences that cause trauma It is my observation that many people of color, particularly Black people, are really not aware that they’ve experienced trauma. Or, they don’t understand just how much trauma eats away […]
7 Bullets. 8+ minutes. Strangulation. 44 shots. James, George, Sandra, Keith, Tony, Breonna. The Time is Now. This is about challenging myself. A few months ago, a couple posts on this blog and a string of emails in my newsletter […]
The year is 2016. I live 900 miles away from my parents, year one in a PhD program that lied to me about money I planned to use to pay my rent, and I’m staring at a notice that says […]
While my priority is always about being mentally fit, I realized just how much my physical fitness was a necessary link to my mental well-being. This is about what I did to get physically fit during quarantine, and what you […]
What is Juneteenth? Why we should celebrate – Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19th that the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that […]
Every time we end up in a moment similar to the one that is currently happening, you ask about how to be an ally. And to be honest, I usually pretend not to hear the question. But this time I […]
I sat paralyzed for days following the murder of George Floyd. I desperately wanted to know how I could use what I have to amplify the voices of rage and unrest at state-sanctioned violence against Black and Brown people. Finally, […]
Who had a once in a 100 year pandemic in mind when putting together their 5-year plan? …Right. Our current reality has put many of us on pause in more ways than one. So I ask: Is your passion pandemic […]
First, welcome to my world. At least twice a week, I’m engulfed in the solitude of my apartment staring at my work laptop with Spongebob playing in the background. And I enjoy it. (Obviously, under less mandatory circumstances). I do […]
My internal struggle is the two sides of me that don’t neatly overlap: Thrill-seeking Sag and PEAK homebody Introvert (INFJ). I’m trying (but not really) to get my Sag to stop looking at the cheap flight emails that are literally […]