• The Great Elephant Migration Art Installation

    The Great Elephant Migration is an art installation consisting of 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures traveling the United States. The sculptures were made out of an invasive plant called Lantana camara by 200 indigenous artisans living in India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It was recently located in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Read more about the exhibition and…

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  • I Am Supposed to Be Here

    On Wednesday, after many years of intending to go, I visited Ellis Island for the first time. It’s the place in New York Harbor where beginning in 1890 immigrants entering the United States through New York City waterways would be processed. I only stayed about a half hour, because I didn’t like the energy in…

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  • Sugar Cravings As a Symptom of Burnout?

    I keep hearing how Black Americans suffer from high blood pressure and Type 2 Diabetes in high numbers. This video pointed out sugar cravings can be our body’s way of replacing the glucose burned off when we are stressed. If that is so, it would make sense Black Americans would suffer from Type 2 Diabetes…

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  • Life Update

    I hadn’t realized the last time I blogged here was September 2022 after our trip to Lake George! A lot has changed in my life since then, which you may have picked up on in my most recent post when I mentioned attending a 19-week coding bootcamp. Time for an update. The second half of…

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  • Tenacity Without Balance Leads to Burnout

    I’m completing a 19-week coding bootcamp for web development. Most mornings we have practice problems to test our knowledge. One of our instructors for this module always reminds us to work on our tenacity and work on the practice problems until the timer goes off, even if we aren’t sure what we’re doing. He’s seen…

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