Year: 2018

16 yrs ago we fell in love. 16 yrs ago I told a lie that ruined chances of living a life knowing your love. 15 yrs ago I told the truth betraying your trust, knowing you would never forgive. I know your hugs/smell/your laugh, our souls colliding, & hurt. My soul re-shatters daily as I…

Our story is unlike any other. We were raised in two completely different ways, but our love has overcome the odds. As the years have passed, we have both grown and matured. I have never meant to hurt you, and for doing so, I am so regrettably sorry. I love you so much, but you…

Most days, I am obnoxiously happy. A joyful goofball. I live by my dead mother’s motto: I’d rather laugh than cry. In short, I might be the last person on earth who wants to sit around contemplating the pandemic of violence against young women. The prospect seems especially grim when I consider that my own…

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I know that I cannot fix what broke our friendship. It's been a little over a year since we parted ways. I cried every day for the first 8 months and I really thought I wasn't going to make it. How could I continue with out my best friend? it just wasn't possible but somehow…

Straight out of a dream, I had when I was 17. Moonlight spilling on your face, feeling the warmth of your embrace, heats up the cold dark night, better than the fire light. Words of promise in my ear, wish you were always here. The white of the dying embers, I'll always remember. Even though…

McGreal goes on to successfully address the question of how the greatest drug epidemic in history grew largely unchecked for nearly two decades….What can be done to reverse this? McGreal’s powerfully stated indictment is a start.

If American progressives really want to fight populism, the battlefront is not going to be Brooklyn coffee bars or campus safe-spaces. Liberal America is going to have to look to the country’s interior and re-engage that large stratum of society that feels – because it has been – left behind.