2025: A New Vision
2024 winds down and 2025 looms before us. We can imagine what the year is likely to bring but most of it is outside...
Ego Tripping in Year 34
Another B(ri)’Day loading, 34 in five days. Last year I realized the year I am turning is the year I’m currently in. This is...
Just Do It: Showcase Edition
I embody the broken record with my pre-performance cycle. Sign up, uncertainty slides in, consider dropping out, ultimately pull through. Anxiety and I doing...
‘Inside Out 2’: The Candy Colored Tear Jerker
The folks at Pixar done did it again. Inside Out (2015) served as entertainment on a flight back home from Puerto Rico in 2016. It was...
Musings of a Maker
Maker. Creator. Artist. Comforting words that encompass an identity. An identity I didn’t feel worthy of. Words for a piece of me that I...
Breaking Out of My Own Mind
The mind, what a powerful and mysterious tool. We reason, create, dream, and question with it. Our personalities call it home. Tracee Ellis Ross...
Summertime is the Right Time
Summer is officially here!! I vow to do better than I did last year. Last summer if it wasn’t wedding or sorority related, I...
It’s My House, I Live Here
When I’m upset and at my wit’s end, I want to make drastic changes. Feeling trapped because you made bad choices and stayed where...
Talk to Me Nice
Kindness toward myself is a long-fought battle. I’m a procrastinating perfectionist in recovery. Not the most nurturing internal environment. Therapy and journaling have made...
Everyone Needs a Journal
I’ve kept a journal for most of my life. I bought them at the Scholastic Book Fair or Borders (RIP to an excellent bookstore)....