There is so much wrong in the world. I wish I could fix it, god knows I do. But I can’t. I can only watch it happen all around me. The despair builds up and makes me want to throw up my hands and give up. When I get to that point a quiet voice within…
A friend is relocating in search of a job environment that will properly respect her newly minted PhD, so I invited her to my neighborhood and took her out to a celebratory goodbye lunch. A 15 minute walk in the sun ended with this glorious reward.
I’m re-reading one of my paper journals and found this paragraph. I feel just as strongly now as I did then and am happy I have remained true to that statement. Little did I know that vow would become an important part of my own healing not long after I wrote it. People’s lives are much…
Kronda and I got to know one another on LiveJournal eons ago. It was so long ago we would walk our pet dinosaurs in the morning before going to work. (I kid…kinda.) It was a long time ago. She lives in Portland and I live in NYC, so we hadn’t ever met face to face. Until…
I am a member of the African-American community, therefore I am deeply concerned by the systemic oppression and murder of my fellow African-Americans at the hands of police officers who are usually not held accountable for their murders, like what they did in Baltimore. I am a member of the LGBTQ community, therefore I am…
