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Note: This post was originally posted on my now deleted substack on October 31, 2025. I am currently taking college courses online via Zoom almost a decade after completing graduate school. It has truly been a humbling experience, as I am no longer the youngest person in the room. I have wisdom that I did…
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There’s nothing quite like it. The screeches from the New York City subway. The grinding intensifies then lulls. An endless sea of commuters, stone faced. Stoicism has nothing on them. I, too, have joined the commuting masses Feeling at home and like a stranger at the same time. Commuting is in my blood. I grew…
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I’m afraid to fall asleep because there is nothing left. No hopes. No dreams. No sign of a life well lived. Only nightmares. I can ignore the lies I tell myself during the day. Denial is easy. Just turn it off. No thoughts. No feelings. Ignoring the truth. But it’s different at night. My brain…
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My lungs are filling with water. Gasping for air, I reach out to you. The bond we share is too great. For this lifetime or the next. We haven’t been strangers for years Yet, I wish we were. It would be easier to let go of an unknown’s hand. But my identity is tied up…
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I wrote a rather ambitious list of twenty six things that I want to accomplish in 2026. Two have already been completed which means that I have twenty four left. Writing on this site is one of my goals for the year and I almost forgot about it. If I’m being honest, my brain is…
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I don’t think that I’m eloquent enough to capture all of the emotions that occur when someone you know dies. I’ve tried for the past seventeen years to understand my own grief and begin to understand the way in which grief impacts others. Needless to say, I have failed on both counts. Something that I…
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No one taught me how to organize No one taught me how to clean So I sat with my neuroses until I could no longer breathe Hit fast forward towards oblivion Living life in 2x speed has it’s perks But I’m just a bunch of failed projects Incompletes that become never will be’s
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Rise Against is a punk rock band from Chicago – a point that they gladly recall at their show in Asbury Park back in July 2021. The lead vocalist Tim McIlrath occasionally stopped to speak to the crowd about all the injustices in the world. I, one of very few Black fans, gesture to the…
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I’m about five years too late with this post but it’s taken about that long to begin to process my own trauma around the pandemic. I see that the world has decided to collectively move on from the lockdown days of the early pandemic. Honestly, it never felt appropriate to comment on what was happening…
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Trapped In The Margins 