Both my parents went to college in Africa and were successful in their careers in medicine. This never changed when we came to the US. They started from the beginning, took the GED and took college classes and within the eight years since they came, completed they’re associate in nursing, an accelerated bachelors in nursing … Continue reading Recommendations for Parents of College Students
Sometimes I am just stuck in a thick fog of thoughts and just nothingness. To help illustrate this, just imagine a large movie theater screen that has a showing of a grey fog. And it’s light is a little bit more dim than usual. That was my mind’s state for weeks until my last day … Continue reading Mine’s all Fogged Up
The destruction and creation of friendships is always happening on the sidelines of our lives. Until we find that sweet spot of friends that are enough not to drive you crazy but are there with you to BE crazy. I have been fortunate to have met plenty of people from multitudes of places to be … Continue reading Intent Vs Impact
As I am doing my laundry and washing my sheets after 3 months, gross I know but I have no regrets, FIGHT ME! Anyways as I am doing laundry, completely distracted from Instagram, filled with civil rights activists and politicians who are working passionately to rid of the microaggressions in the front lines. But don’t … Continue reading Don’t Be Fooled
Amazingly enough in October, not having the habit of opening my blinds to know the appropriate clothes to wear in this spontaneous fall weather. I get a wonderful Sunday morning call informing the horror that was happening outside. And you guys! It was snowing in October! Freaking October, I am a black woman who somehow … Continue reading First Snow Fall
I woke up feeling shitty, not physically though. More so as a person, woke up feeling a shitty person. School I trashed, work I am mediocre and love, he doesn’t have ownership of the relationship. I woke up kinda late...not so late...but late enough to shower and make it in time to be late and … Continue reading Depressive Thoughts One
The younger version of myself would be disappointed in the person I have become. Back then I hungered to prove to the world, that I may not fit in as a refugee but my life was so eccentric, or so I said. I created journeys that were un-ordinary as the next one, to anyone who … Continue reading Contentment in Failure is the Absence of Bravery
