I spent this weekend in near silence. One thing I did not want to do was talk about the events surrounding the electoral college vote.

This New Year is significant considering the year we are leaving behind us. As the clock moved from 11:59 to midnight to mark the New Year,

As we close the book on the Christmas of 2020, will we have stories to tell!

A culture shift? A culture shift that we are enduring in the middle of a culture shock.

A hug makes us feel loved and connected. When we hug someone, our body releases the oxytocin hormone also known as the love hormone.

For all that is going wrong, it took a group of nine-year old kids, to remind me that no amount of fear, anger, hate, injustice, or racism,

I listened to an argument yesterday between two friends. My two friends are completely and exactly the opposite from each other. One...

I had gotten to the place where Fannie Lou Hammer once described as being sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I cranked up the music in my car with Teena Marie belting out Square Biz and found myself loudly singing the chorus.

Perhaps on the other side…we can find our why.

It seems as if this past week has been the longest one in an awfully long time. In a year filled with long weeks for one reason or another,

I do not know about you, but I just do not see or feel anything normal about this. It feels as if I have entered the Twilight Zone.

"what I hear everyone saying is that in order for us to change the world...we must be brave."

Culture crisis. I overheard that term the other day, standing in a check out line.

So, what does ‘resilience’ really mean? Have we so watered down the word that it no longer has any value?

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that

Today, our jobs as public human services, non-profit and governmental workers is to protect the generations that come after us from hate.

“I don’t feel no ways tired. I’ve come too far from where I started from..."

Yesterday, we lost two giants of the civil rights movement, and we celebrated Nelson Mandela day. All in one day.