Coloring With Crayons And Growing Up
A friend had recently called me in a panic to voice her concerns about the near future. I answered my ringing phone and spoke through the…
The Lives That Run Parallel To Our Own
The sound of knocking came from behind my best friend’s front door about an hour after we had come home from her birthday party. Her two…
The Legacy of A Life Online
Facebook has recently been gathering old posts from our early years on Facebook to share with us each day, and has given us the option to…
Chapters Of Our Perception
They say that, before we die, our life briefly flashes before our eyes. We get to see a glimpse of the impact that we have left…
What Martin Luther King Had Said
In April 2015, Baltimore police had arrested 25-year-old African-American, Freddie Gray. He had sustained injuries to his spine and larynx, fell into a coma on April 12,…
The Writer and the Reader
I had seen a group of Jane Austen novels in the Kings County Library’s Hanford Branch before but didn’t check out any of the books until…
New Year’s Resolutions: 2015
White lights were draped over the railings of our fourth-story balcony. We sat gathered together with music in the darkness that was partially illuminated by candlelight.…
Be Quiet, It’s Christmas
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the…
“W” is for Waitlisted
The Thing About These Recent Tuition and Fee Hikes For Education The estimated costs of attending college in the University Of California school system for undergraduates…
“P” is for People and Openness
It’s funny to look back now and think about the time when we were teenagers and we assumed that we thought we knew more about the…