A friend #CheckedIn with me last week, during which I shared this description of what my family life was like growing up: Brilliant and Broken. You see, Dad was a doctor. Mom was an opera ...
“Can you think of an experience when you felt unwelcome, or that you didn’t belong? What was the situation? What did you perceive the signals to be? How did that make you feel?” This is ...
“What time even is it right now?” I thought to myself as I spent another Sunday evening cramming away at building another lesson for my 9th-grade students that would inevitably blow up into fragments of ...
Hey America! Happy Fourth of July! Are you bored with Black Lives Matter yet? Of course some of you are. I can hear it, read it and watch it. The conversations are turning, because some ...
“You are a Joseph,” my mother used to say to me. It was her way of saying I was a bridge between people. A connector of the unexpected sort. I’ve always known this to be ...
I originally shared this on May 30th. And unsurprisingly, you can substitute “last night” in the first paragraph for any point in time over the past four weeks and it is still relevant. This is ...
Listen for the pop of the cork. I was talking with a group of friends, recently. Three of us are Black, two are White. We can rap about almost anything. We’re all engaged in our ...
This story was submitted anonymously to the How We Show Up collection as part of the July SEEQ sessions. My authentic self is someone who is very outgoing and enthusiastic and blissful. During the time ...
This story was submitted anonymously to the How We Show Up collection as part of the July SEEQ sessions. At work people perceive me as a hard-ass. This is interesting to me because it is ...
This story was submitted anonymously to the How We Show Up collection as part of the July SEEQ sessions. My moment of authenticity came this last spring during my National club volleyball tournament in Denver ...