Video Game Review | Unpacking
Unpacking is an incredibly wholesome game which lets you see into someone’s life and experience different stages of it all while performing a gameplay loop that feels relaxing and satisfying.
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Ballin’ on a Budget… Provence
I have traveled through many nations, including this trip into France, that had colonized the world. And not once had I felt–Black. Or at least the sensation of how traveling while Black in America has conditioned me to feel. Black people, are constantly navigating that.
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Book Review | The Celtic Way of Prayer by Esther de Waal
The Celtic Way of Prayer is a treasured echo from the last millennium speaking across the decades through author and scholar Esther De Waal. Now in her 90s, de Waal wrote this classic while
living in the borderlands of the Welsh countryside, and as a primer for those curious about the Celtic way.
People of Note | Aminah “Chef Mimi” Robinson-Briscoe, Founder of the Black Food & Wine Experience
(Chef Mimi has)….created community through the Black Food & Wine Experience, which was held for the fifth time this summer…
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Ball so Hard… Europe
A week of romping through euro countries, many that are geographically or populously smaller than states at home. Trains, planes, and the unwise decision to rent an automobile.
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Nurse in the Kitchen | The Case for Plant-Based Eating
In the Emergency Department, I see chronic illness every day. The majority of my patients over 40 years old have either high blood pressure,…
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Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22 | Building Community One Mural at a Time
Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22: How a Piece of Chalk is Able to Create Extraordinary Art and Build Community One Mural at a Time! Imagine…
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Show Review | Moon Knight
Have you ever heard of Moon Knight before? In the past he may have been considered a more minor hero when it came to…
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Video Game Review | Life is Strange – True Colors
While video games have increased the number of canon LGBTQ characters that doesn’t mean they always hit the mark. Sometimes games fall into tropes and stereotypes…
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Take Me Home, Country Roads
This was in May of 2020. The world was only about less than four months into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even for a family of four with just enough space in our home and a reasonably sized backyard…
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A Poem by Julie Clark | Palm Branches
…But the palm waving
Crowds shouting
Hosanna, quickly turned
To Crucify him
When he did not do
What they thought
He was supposed to do.
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Pasadena, CA | A Tale of Two Runners, 2022
The year was 1859 and Charles Dickens was writing about the French Revolution…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens at the beginning of his seminal book A Tale of Two Cities.