America’s greatness is not created in a Twitter profile. It’s not spoken at press conferences and cannot be written concisely into any one speech. But over the weekend, President-elect Trump took to Twitter to attack a great American - Rep. John Lewis - and the great American people he represents. By personally attacking a congressman, … Continue reading What Atlanta can teach America
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A Letter to our Fathers
It has been close to two months since election and I - like many of my peers - still can’t come up with the perfect written synopsis of how events unraveled. We’ve read reviews and opinion pieces; we’ve started to explore our own biases and place in the post-fact world. As a 24 year old … Continue reading A Letter to our Fathers
A Healthy Dose of Politics
As America focuses its collective energy on the spectacle that is the final stretch of the 2016 Presidential election, several themes continue to clog our newsfeeds and our daily news cycles. Mainly, we invest our time and energy into comparing individual characters involved instead of talking about policy proposals. We talk about Trump’s demeanor, our … Continue reading A Healthy Dose of Politics
Podcasting & Perfecting the Media Machine
My former morning routine looked something like - check email, refresh Twitter three times, part-read/part-skim/part-scroll over a dozen or so articles. Repeat and then finally head out the door. My new routine is much more streamlined - open up my podcast app and start getting ready for my day. Yes, I’m one of ‘those’ Millennials … Continue reading Podcasting & Perfecting the Media Machine
The Definition of America
Two sentences. Two realities. Political campaigns are inherently accented with buzzwords, punctuated with hyperbole and marked by character bashing. But this campaign cycle seems to read from a completely different script than what we’ve heard in the past. This new script isn’t written with the traditional war of words that pits Democrats against Republicans year … Continue reading The Definition of America
Millennial Politicking
After months of reading primary polls and days of watching the spectacle of party conventions, all I could think to write was: what the hell is going on? Political pageantry continues with no sign of stopping. Facts are elusive as you can read and watch content that solidifies the opinions you already have. Despite our … Continue reading Millennial Politicking
The worst kind of hate
Hate is hate. It is viscerally, numbingly concrete in its ability to render itself part of our daily lives. In days and weeks and years of struggle, it is easier to point out hate than any other human emotion. Every page of human history has hate painted upon it by people and by institutions … Continue reading The worst kind of hate
The Future of Writers
Writers are having an identity crisis. In recent weeks artificial intelligence took a stab at removing human writers from content creation and Facebook predicted the end of the craft all together. These headlines make it seem like the death of the writer is imminent - a casualty of machine learning and our desire for quick, … Continue reading The Future of Writers
On Vulnerability and Writing
The fear in writing comes from the exposure of our vulnerabilities. On an empty page our inner thoughts are judged; our ideas are deemed worthy based on on our ability to chose the right words and mold the correct phrases together. We attempt to crystallize experiences, capture moments, and tap into the collective memory all … Continue reading On Vulnerability and Writing
The Unexpected Stagnation of Young-Professional Life
We’ve been called just about everything - the trophy generation, the ‘Me’ generation, the selfie generation. But the most apt description is that we are the SAT-AP-ACT generation. As someone who grew up in the 90s and 00s, my peers and I were taught to quantify our success on numerical scales. We were raised to … Continue reading The Unexpected Stagnation of Young-Professional Life