What it’s like to be a survivor — First and foremost I would like to mention that I feel there’s a misconception about these teen Behavorial schools and labeling these kids as “totally out of control teens”. As a survivor myself, I’ve met a mixture of kids. Kids who ditched once, kids who experimented with weed once, kids…

At times I saw you and felt home, I stayed away. At times I saw you and I felt confusion, As much as I wanted you, I looked inside me and I knew I couldn’t put myself through the sieve of your reckoning. Or put you through mine. I knew…

In a world full of superficiality and dating apps, it’s hard to act yourself…. This question spewed from a conversation I was having the other night. How do we put the brakes on interviewing and impressing each other so constantly that we lose substance at our finger tips? The most…

I feel guilt knowing that some of these family members share blood with me. It’s always at some family gathering. Things seem to be going well, everyone is laughing with a cocktail in their hand until someone tells a story and begins using racial slurs. …

What should you do when these topics come up. I’ll make it very clear for you. DON’T teach your child racism. Do not feed them an experience they haven’t felt. Do not touch the segregation topic until “they ask”. DON’T even tread carefully with “one day long ago whites and…