Thank God
Where were you on Saturday November 7th, 2020? What were you doing? The day is forever a memory etched in our brains. Most people I know were celebrating in...
The loss of potential and love during pandemic
If we’re friends, you know that I’m straightforward and don’t like beating around the bush. And right now, I would rather all of us know what we’re up...
COVID struggling thoughts
(This is going to be a meandering, depressing post. You’ve been warned lol). Over the last week or two, I’ve struggled a great deal. I think for a while I...
Went to drive-through lab for Coronavirus test, this is how it went
Writing this quickly/stream of thought just to get it out and share it with people. May miss some things, but hopefully this helps give people an idea of...
Changes (cont’d)
Someone asked me some weeks ago to reflect on why I am the way I am, or why our relationship is the way it is. I met her in Harlem in December 2016. I...
Changes
I have lowkey been obsessed with Megan Hellerer recently, and find a lot of comfort and solace in her writing/coaching. I read this post this morning, and...
End of 2019
I initially wanted to end my year by writing a few posts since I've learned and done a lot in 2019, and it is definitely the most productive year of my life....
First Day of School
This is my first first day of school in a physical classroom as a learner in six years. As seen from the results of a class survey, I’m feeling anxious like...
Money
I had a couple of conversations this weekend that bothered me a bit. There’s this whole thing in our first-world society where we only do things for money,...
We ran a successful 3-day family reunion for 55 people in a state no one lives in. Here’s my story.
To start, there were 44 people who did not make it to the event. I was always going to consider this successful even if only 5 people came. 55 people was a...
How I passed the PMP
I’ve received some questions about advice for passing this exam. Below is an email I sent to someone detailing my experience + an aggregate of what I found...
Living at Capacity
“You know, I wrote it like this because if I don’t do it this way, then how do I explain to people that I just ran away?” “You don’t have to.” “What, you...
Drum progress
It’s been a couple weeks since I got my drum set, and almost a week since my drum teacher came over and fixed up my mess to actually be set up properly. I...
Innovation
Humanism (regular definition) is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist...
Thoughts of self-doubt
I’ve been a lot more anxious recently. For the last month, I haven’t had time to think about the work I was doing. Just that I had to do it. And so I was...
General thoughts on education
Something I have noticed a lot nowadays is how it’s becoming normal for people to think they don’t need an education. Or, people saying it’s better to go to...
Condo before and after
TL;DR – Here’s a link to our Airbnb. Our family bought a condo in Birmingham recently. We worked with a contractor and spent a couple months renovating it. I...
Rethinking my rethinking of project management
I was watching a Bill Hader interview with Variety in prep for season 2 of Barry. Interviewer “This sort of stink of desperation around the actors in the...
Statement of Purpose
This is in my top 3 favorite things I feel like I've ever written, so I thought I'd share. It's my personal essay I submitted to the master's program I just...
2019 Goals
It’s 3 AM on a Tuesday. I’ve been awake for an hour reading various things already. I’m awake this early because I felt awful yesterday and could not wait to...