*Warning, this article contains discussion of sexual assault and rape. What is your story? When have you stayed silent in order to maintain the status quo, to not upset to other person often as your sacrifice your own wants and needs? I am a communication scholar and practitioner. My passion…

I was asked to take the Traitify assessment. I strongly dislike these tests; I feel like I am being judged on an arbitrary data set instead of who I really am. Perhaps I am deluding myself, and these assessments reveal my true self, but I am too stubborn to accept…

Burnout is not what you think it is. You cannot self-care, bubble bath, or 9-hole your way out of burnout. I came across a great article from my colleagues at Glowe Collective, authored by Ariana Jahja, at just the right time in my journey. I’m sharing this article because while…

My poem wears a warm cloak of anonymity. It has green eyes and red hair. It eats like an omnivore evolved from the T-Rex and the Brontosaurus. It dreams about children and schedules and love and violence. It drives a modest car. It lives in 1000 square feet where there…

I was mortified when, in a review of my Friday writing, I found that I misspelled the word waved/waived in the title of a poem on red flags in relationships. Did I misspell it? Or was it a subconscious Freudian slip? In the poem's body, I spelled wave in the…