Love
November 17, 2025. Makes me wonder… how long has it been, Maya? Let’s see… (does math. j/k. uses laptop to do math.) It’s been… 3 years and 5 months. Which is 41 months, exactly. It’s ...
In this time, it might feel like all hope is lost. It isn’t. There is a way. Stay in love. With your family. With your friends. With your neighbors. With your God. With your passion. ...
Christmas 2022. Only two years ago, and yet it feels like a lifetime. That’s because so many memorable things happened in 2022 (and honestly, 2023 and 2024 have been chock-full, too). But let’s focus on ...
The following essay is adapted from a talk I gave at the YMCA of Greater Richmond 2023 DEI Symposium on May 19, 2023, and is part of my Sojourn, America series of stories and essays. ...
July is Minority Mental Health Month. I just learned that. So I guess it’s fitting that I talk about this. Today. Tomorrow. Next month. Next year. Until I don’t have anything else to say. My ...
trigger warning: this piece talks about suicide It’s a luxury to be able to hate your father. Not everyone gets to. I hated my father. All the way up to when I couldn’t hate him ...
“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 ...
I will quit smoking, I will stop writing and I will retreat from life for the sake of my lover, I will be transformed to a filthy rat that suddenly gets out from his hole ...
When the tears are everything: love and anger, hope and fear, pride and pain That is what I feel tonight. I sit here on the verge The tears want to spill and I tell them ...
There is no time for hysteria. No time for panic. No time for ignorance. No time for carelessness and selfishness. There is all the time in the world for thoughtfulness. All the time for calm. ...
