What Crosses My Mind

  • Two Lives – A Cultural Divide

    Dedicated to the short lives of Bushra Abdi, 19, and Zeynab (Hapsa) Abdalla 19   There are already open wounds two young women lost their lives their final moments in a panic with 911.   We have these preliminary assumptions the dead can no longer speak a certain beauty will now forever encompass the memory…

  • When Childhood Seemed Innocent

    We would play, for hours in May, anticipating the summer day, those opportunities ahead that contained no worries, no stress, no school remained.   I remember our time spent on the court the roundball, and later building a fort we camped in the woods across the fields, we lived for all the beauty that nature…