#BlackLivesMatter#ICantBreathe The hashtags float across my Twitter screen; the headlines scream their depressing news, just days apart. With no time to catch a breath from the news in Ferguson, Eric Garner too lost his time to catch a breath. “I am awake. I can’t sleep. So here I am, writing,” I tweeted in the early hours […]
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Holidays as a time of joy, or stress?
Advent is a season rife with expectation, whether you expect presents under a tree, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, or if you simply expect waves of emotions, joy, anger, sadness, stress. It’s not an easy time. Time was when I would have shrugged off the season’s less happy emotions. I think that was […]
