There are more than twenty journals that hold our bodies in ink — years of heat and hesitation, of cities and separations, of promises whispered and abandoned and whispered again. Each page is a version of me asking why we kept choosing the long way around each other instead of staying.

This is the letter she waited for in rooms he never entered. Not his voice exactly — but the one she needed to hear to finally understand why he kept leaving.

If I could step back into the night you met him, I wouldn’t stop you. This is just as much my journey today as it was your chaos then. My hindsight is earned, but this is what I'd tell you.

When souls remember, they don’t ask permission. They don’t check calendars, moral codes, or timing. They don’t care who you’ve become in the years apart. They simply recognize. I didn’t meet you. I remembered you, even if the timing is profoundly wrong.

Be open to change, even when it arrives disguised as loss. Let rejection do its real job: removing those who cannot meet you where you are becoming. Not everyone is meant to come forward with you. That isn’t cruelty. It’s alignment.

The idea that racism could help sustain a social structure challenges my instinctive belief that it exists only to hinder progress, growth, and critical thought. However, as Memmi (1965) argues, colonialism is inseparable from racism; without it, the colonial order could not survive. While deeply uncomfortable, this acknowledgment forces me to consider how societies organize themselves and how social order—however unjust—becomes normalized and reproduced. Racism, in this cont

Identity development theory was the central focus of my first child and adolescent psychology course in 1995. That introduction framed identity as an evolving process—one in which children and adolescents naturally progress through developmental stages as part of life’s broader cycle. Erikson (1980) describes ego identity as fluid, continuously reshaped as individuals encounter new experiences, including interactions with people of different races, religions, genders, and wor

It is 7/2019. I wrote this in 1/2015. Have we now grown into 'acceptance' and cured ourselves of the limited concept of 'tolerance'?