Some of us were shoved out into the world with part of our egg shells stuck to our backs, not yet fully hatched. There is not enough time in the world for healing. There is not enough time in our lives to figure out what… Read More
Native New Yorkers are slaves to gentrification. We have given our blood, sweat and tears to a place we had no choice but to call home. We have squeezed rocks under pressures of 725,000 pounds per square inch on our own. Creating diamonds out of the… Read More
My vacation ended the moment I began to board my flight back to New York City. During the ten hour flight, I already started to feel like I was in New York. I would need no time to re-adjust once I landed, because New York… Read More
A couple of years ago I heard of a project that would displace a couple thousand people to make way for a grandiose stadium. People were being kicked out of their homes, in order to make way for high rise apartments and a place that… Read More
Most of my younger years were spent with my three older brothers, 2 older male cousins and my younger female cousin. The 7 of us were inseparable. Before my younger cousin was old enough to play with us, I would cry when I did not… Read More
