Ice skating is my favorite sport and the only sport I watch during the Olympics. As a kid growing up in the 80s, kid life was just different, as we had more realistic and wholesome idols than what exists today. There was a huge emphasis on science, the arts and athletics growing up as a …read more.

Ways to improve my community has been on my mind a very long time. I deeply believe that people should help build the place they came from, but as a Black person it's complicated, because a lot of us either move away becomes our hometowns are not desirable to move back to, so improving it …read more.

An old pic I found on my PC from 2017 on my way to the library. A shoeshiner buffing shoes outside the New York Public Library. There’s still a lot of dwindling traditional trade skills swirling around New York City.

Ways to improve my community has been on my mind a very long time. I deeply believe that people should help build the place they came from, but as a Black person it’s complicated, because a lot of us either move away becomes our hometowns are not desirable to move back to, so improving it …read more.

I think unlike most people, my life wasn't changed by the pandemic, in-fact, I was living my best life. I'm an introvert, and at the time of the pandemic, I was living alone in my Brooklyn apartment. I didn't even have my cats yet. I was already working from home, so the lockdown was just …read more.

I think unlike most people, my life wasn’t changed by the pandemic, in-fact, I was living my best life. I’m an introvert, and at the time of the pandemic, I was living alone in my Brooklyn apartment. I didn’t even have my cats yet. I was already working from home, so the lockdown was just …read more.

I don’t have any morning rituals because I’m not a creature of habit, which a lot of times is to my detriment. But the morning ritual I strive to achieve is to wake up at 6am. 6:00am: Waking up at 6 is kind of hard because I am really only woke once the sun hits …read more.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian. I got my first job in a pet store when I was 15 years old, and for the next 8 years, I continued to work for veterinarians. I started off as a kennel assistant cleaning cages, feeding the boarded pets and walking the dogs.  …read more.

Something most people don't understand is doublespeak. It's when a person says one thing, but really means something else which is usually something sinister. So, they make what they say sound acceptable enough so that people don't clutch their pearls. Doublespeak is practiced a lot by white people in America when used in racist context, …read more.

Something most people don’t understand is doublespeak. It’s when a person says one thing, but really means something else which is usually something sinister. So, they make what they say sound acceptable enough so that people don’t clutch their pearls. Doublespeak is practiced a lot by white people in America when used in racist context, …read more.