What Crosses My Mind

  • Standing Alone

    When I was a child, I could feel the rain if I stepped outside to wait for the clouds I understood the elements could carry a wonderful weight on a summer’s day. I remember that day as a child, my mother would call me in from the rain, to serve me a soup, maybe chicken noodle…

  • Lest We Forget We are Human Beings -prose-

    There’s a famous line in the relatively obscure movie Freedom Writers that has stuck with me since the first time I heard it in context. ‘You know what’s gonna happen when you die? You’re gonna rot in the ground.” – Erin Gruwell. The context speaks to a young African American student wanting to be recognized…