Category: Life
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I quit three jobs in 2021.
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A lot of people are arguing right now about voting. The same arguments that went on 4 years ago. “Should you vote your conscience, or should you vote for the lesser of two evils?” There’s a lot of shaming, and coercing, and weaponizing people’s statements to get people to vote for the candidate they deem…
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I assume, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus and the self-isolation mandates that have been put in place worldwide, that most of us have spent the last month or so in our homes. For many people, it has been a boring and/or aggravating time. For some (like me), it has been incredibly busy.…
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Hindsight is 20/20, but foresight is blurry.
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A month ago, I wrote a little bit about how I got back into reading books — non-academic, non-religious books — after what seems like a decade-long hiatus. After a conversation with friends, and having just put music journalism on hold, I felt inspired to pick back up the hobby I put down many years…
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“Something just clicked for me, and now, I have this desire to read more stories.”
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A continuation of the narrative, based on an adolescent struggle with self-hate.
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A couple years ago, in the wake of the death of a prominent hip-hop figure, I wrote about the divergent reactions from the public to this sudden and devastating event — grief and sympathy vs. relief and apathy — as well as the importance of looking at people’s lives holistically and not engaging in the…
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When tragedy strikes, how do we react? What goes through our mind? How do we cope? The passing of legendary basketball icon Kobe Bryant earlier this week made me reflect on this. As my mind raced, trying to process the magnitude and devastating nature of this loss, I kept asking the same question — “Why,…
Black Spasmodic 