How Teens (can) Survive a Flood

Floods are among the most devastating phenomena on the planet occurring as a the result of super storms and breaches in water containment structures. They are indiscriminate overtaking anything in their path including humans.  Of course, as I write this, the sky is a deep blue serving as the backdrop to Jacaranda leaves without their purple blooms this time …

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Guest on the Podcast Life in Brilliance

Sometimes it’s through conversation and literally being interviewed that we grow to understand the brilliance of the journey. There is great fuel and kindling in amidst the embers of our road to the present.

When courage and dreams become contagious

Dr. Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream speech indicted America; there are no two ways about that. Five score separated the United States from Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and the march on Washington, still arguably touted as the greatest peaceful protest that Washington D.C. has ever hosted. That’s 100 years from the end of …

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Dr. King: One of the greatest examples of Authentic patriotism for black folk and non-black folk.

Reloading hope

I just opened the freezer on a dreary Thursday morning during winter break and grabbed the cookie dough (I don’t bake by choice). It’s nearing time to go back to teaching but today I’m ’bout to eat these cookies in the middle of the day. Let me tell you why… See, I never learned much …

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You don’t belong

Almost 20 years ago I earned a B.A. in print journalism from Chapman University and in the process worked for several news outlets, freelancing and honing a writing craft I thought would become a lifelong profession. I was journalism student of the year when I graduated and had departmental honors. That was 1997. By 1999 …

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