National Vibes

I am writing this with Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” playing in the background. They don’t match, but they do. Nostalgia being the unifying factor. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and while I never regularly watched football as a kid, I did watch the Super Bowls. Usually, it entailed a party with church people around. We wouldContinue reading “National Vibes”

American Wealth: Hope, Opportunity & Resilience

[Image via englishspeecheschannel.com] “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson By: Gabriela Yareliz There was a JFK essay contest in high school. We learned about it through a newspaper we would read in English class. Those cute papers that had poems and featured other peer writing. I wanted in, and IContinue reading “American Wealth: Hope, Opportunity & Resilience”