People are calling. They ask, “How are you holding up?” But I’m not sure they believe me when I say “Iโm okโ It’s true, though. At least, for now it is. I am ok. For the most part, anyway. If you had asked me a week ago, the answer would have been “No.” Last week […]
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I am dismayed. Dismayed that I have opened my newsfeed to headlines of today’s carnage in California. Another senseless mass shooting. Yet again.ย I am horrified. Horrified to imagine the terrifying, paralyzing fear those parents must have felt the moment they learned someone was shooting at their child’s elementary school. But I’m unable to…because I […]
Today, my heart is heavy. A back story: Ten years ago a complete stranger showed me a random act of kindness that to this day still leaves me in awe whenever I reflect upon it. I was your typical broke college student who found myself in a situation where my current lease was ending […]
It is the anniversary-eve of the Sandy Hook tragedy and here I sit, reading in disbelief the news of today’s latest school shooting. I am taken back to the moments one year ago tomorrow, as I grieved with the nation over the insensible loss ofย innocent children, all-the-while fighting a rather encompassing and most urgent […]