Week 5: Media Creation in the Industry

Here is the media I created for this assignment: Instagram Post It reads: “Find a cure, save a life. 6 million Americans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Your screenings and donations fund research to find a cure.” Pictured: an elderly caucasian couple sitting on a blanket in the grass smiling. Newsletter Graphic Same wording and […]

Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts & the Fear of Success

My two friends and I talked about fear of success the other day. Our discussion entailed how the culprit targets millennials and begets foreboding quarter-life crises or worse, The Imposter Syndrome. In part of the conversation, I got very candid about how these things held me captive for more years in my twenties than I […]

Learning How to Journal Helped Me Overcome Regret

“If you allow yourself to live in a paradigm of regret— where harsh voices condemn you for your mistakes and curse your attempts to step into the unknown — you will lack the ability to imagine an open and hopeful future.” – Dan Cumberland Turning 30 should be one of the best moments in a […]

You Want Me to Have Another Baby? Hook Me Up with Your Son

Before I became a mother, I envisioned sharing a life with my husband and 5 beautiful brown children in a mansion. I’d spent an inordinate amount of time selecting their first and middle names, ensuring they’d have meaning, before entering college. The rosy picture faded about two years after my son was born. Lack of […]

A Story About Being Ghosted By A Lifelong Friend

“I can’t believe she ghosted me.” This was all I could think when I realized Jean, a friend I’d known and loved since childhood, had cut me out of her life. We’d traveled with a group of friends to Miami to celebrate another life longer’s engagement. We’d planned to have a great time. For most […]

The Duality of Truthfulness

When most urban teenagers turn 18, the typical rites of passage that populate their minds are entering nightclubs for the first time, or swigging their first underage drink. In some capacity, their activities of choice are rooted in things that are socially acceptable among the cliques they associate. In today’s street vernacular, we’d call this […]