The Impatient Optimist A Quarter History “My mother told me Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America,” I remember telling my teacher during a whole American History High School Course. I say whole because I remember signing up for an African American History Course and was quickly let down to learn that only half of the course…
Tag: writing
Nobody’s Unicorn
The Black Woman is tiredShe’s exhausted!She’s putting her cape downfolding it up, putting in the backof the closet. The Black Woman is tiredof bending over backwardsstretching all her limbs to save everyone. The Black Woman is tiredshe is exhausted of beingshelter for the worldwhen the world doesn’t want tokeep her warm The Black Woman is…
Politicians Are Politicizing the Mon Valley’s Poverty
Yesterday I spoke in front of approximately 300 US Steel workers and supporters to give insight on what a three billion dollar investment deal would mean to the Mon Valley, and specifically my neighborhood. I also spoke about what a decrease in investment in the neighborhood cost and it’s about more than jobs. People are…
Finding My Why
“People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.” Author and entrepreneur Simon Sinek spoke so eloquently in his 2009 Ted Talk. As a connoisseur quote collector, that stuck. I may have forgotten the other words in the talk but Mr. Sinek was in his bag when he wrote that one down….
Build Community Don’t Just Gather People
Volunteering/helping has always been my passion and on that same street, I’ve always been knowledge hungry about housing, specifically affordable housing. After reading “How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood,” I fed some of that hunger for knowledge and learned to no one’s surprise that gentrification isn’t just an…
𝕌𝕟𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕚𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟
We don’t want easier livesWe justWant to playBy the same gameEven the same rulesGiven the same toolsAttend the same prestigious schoolsGiven opportunitiesTo build the same wealthReside in towns whereWe all haveThe same qualityOf healthWe want thesame roadssame quality of homesAccess to theSame cheat codesBecause try harderisn’t gettingAny further inA systemThat wasn’t madeFor me Telling us…
You’re Qualified for Your Dream Job but You Don’t Know It Yet
Your dream job is probably out there but you just don’t think you’re qualified for it and if our former question mark of a president taught us anything if you apply yourself enough the world is your oyster.
I Wrote My Way Out
“The problem was our parents told us we could be anything and they never told us we couldn’t be everything at once.” — @ justdae Growing up at one point, I wanted to be a singer, then I discovered that I don’t like singing in front of strangers. Then I wanted to be an actress….
Let’s Stop Trying to Pretend the Pandemic Away
“My kid doesn’t have a bus.” “My food is taking too long.” “My furniture order won’t be here until next year.” “We need you to work longer hours.” Why are we complaining as if things were normal? America out here trying to pretend a pandemic away and that’s not how things work. That’s not how…
Why Should I Get Vaccinated if I Can Still Get Covid & Other FAQs?
“Why Should I Get Vaccinated if I Can Still Get Covid?” This is my most frequently asked questioned and OMG! I wanna curse but I’m not gonna. I am in no way an epidemiologist but I work in IT Healthcare and I follow a few scientists, I also like reading, and my college degree was…
OMG It's Just Daé 