Stories of Reflection
A collection of stories reflecting on some of life’s most impactful experiences.
“Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.” I have loved this verse and sentiment since my mother first taught it to me. It guided me as a child and young ...
365 days later, we are all asking ourselves what the past year has meant. Was George Floyd’s death a wakeup call? Yes, I believe it was. It woke some people up to what more is ...
My first love of a sport was baseball. Since my early memories, Mets and Yankees games would be on our TV and we would venture out to the newly built minor league stadium to watch ...
Listen, I absolutely knew today would happen. Listening to Trump over the past few years, months, weeks and days, especially after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election, I knew this would happen. As ...
I am coming to terms with what some of you know. Grief doesn’t have an end date. You might have seen/heard versions of this. But after seven years, it hits fresh and new ...
“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 ...
My writing has been blocked for the past couple of months. Some of it has been due to life circumstances. I’ve had so much going on, with a lot of really meaningful work happening at ...
October 17, 2020 On a beautiful and crisp Saturday afternoon, I was relaxing after a busy morning of cleaning, doing laundry, getting groceries, and doing yard work. Tired, I lied down onto the couch to ...
I couldn’t sleep last night. Three days ago, Jacob Blake was shot. And as you know by now, I need time to process things when Black people get shot or killed by police. Because I ...
