Blog Post
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I’ve never really been afraid of new opportunities. Since the beginning of my academic career, I’ve been encouraged to take risks, and though it has not been easy to support the risks I’ve chosen to take, I keep leaping from metaphoric planes without a parachute, into whatever is waiting for me. I went to schools
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I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 18, getting ready to graduate high school, and transition to a college 1000 miles away from home. Before I left, my grandmother and I had a chat, and the one thing she said that still echoes with me to this day is “Don’t get up there
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Father’s Day is usually tough day for me. I have a great relationship with my dad, but it’s not one of the holidays I choose to visit home for. I’ll call him, and send him a card and a gift, but since I moved, I don’t think I’ve spent that holiday there. The hard part
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As far back as I can remember, I’ve been an overachiever. It literally started back in first grade. Every year, my school would give two awards for highest GPA in 1st -3rd grade and 4th -6th grade. The winner got a $100 savings bond, and from the first time I saw it happen in Kindergarten,
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When people think of Mississippi, they often think of country dirt roads, cotton fields, racism, and slavery. There’s this image of two dirt roads converging at a stop in the middle of large farms. Currently, I’m standing smack dab in the middle of that crossroad, living an actual existential mid-life crisis, and I’m terrified. I’ve
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I have a hard time choosing me. It’s always been difficult because I’m always wondering about how my decisions will affect other people. Sometimes I do it out of fear, and other times I do it out of empathy and really caring about how people feel. Lately, I’ve reached an impasse, and haven’t been really
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When I was little, my parents had us do all kinds of chores, both indoor and outdoor. I didn’t mind chores, but washing dishes was so anxiety inducing because I was always afraid to break anything. My mom had this rule. If you broke a dish, you had to replace it, but not just the
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When it comes to the process of healing, I’ve always been super wary of the intersection of religion and therapy. Growing up, church was one of the most dramatic spaces I ever attended. There was always some sort of scandal or exposing someone’s secret. I never remembered it as a healing space or place of
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I remember being a child back home and some of the ridiculous country shit we would do. We had all these secret spots we would go to do crazy kid stuff, but one of my favorite things to do was to go on my grandfather’s boat with some of my cousins, and practice my cussing.
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Thirty-six years ago, at 1:05 am, I burst onto the scene ready to conquer everything. From the first day I bust the womb, I’d been equipped with the tools I needed to be successful; a loving family who wanted to see me live better than they had. I’m not stranger to struggle, as I’ve been
Moments with Marcus 