COVID-19 – Word-for-Sense and Other Stories

December 4, 2020

pandemic: a poem for our times

Poetry COVID-19, depression, internet, personal, poetry, reflective, social media, stress

When will it ever be enough?

August 5, 2020

2020 and the Nature of Expertise

BLACK LIVES MATTER, queer, Reflection, Social Justice 2020, COVID-19, dumpster fire, hope, intersectionality, marginalized communities, racism, stress, transgender, United States, wisdom, youth

We’ve all seen the memes: 2020 is canceled, person throws garbage labeled 2020 in a dumpster, etc. So much about 2020 has been so strange, the wildfires, the pandemic, the fact that it took so many people this long to realize what life is like for those of us who are Black and the fact […]

March 25, 2020

The New Normal: Thoughts Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reflection, Social Justice community, community organizing, COVID-19, online community, resources, wuthering

I’ve always been kind of obsessed with the word “normal.” And these days it’s coming up much more frequently, because people are talking about how the normal has disappeared. In the wake of COVID-19, what many people once considered “normal” is now gone. And it’s creating panic. People are hoarding toilet paper. Grocery store shelves […]