[Facebook Post Originally Shared on October 26th, 2026] Long live democracy in all of its beauty. This is a very proud day for Brazil, and a great crisis has been staved. Voters rejected a return to fascism, to oppression, to the politics of fear and hatred, to the destruction of our entire planet's most critically important and endangered lifeline: the Amazon. On that final point alone, this was perhaps the most consequential presidential election of our lives. Today, the ma

Here's an entire assortment of poems I've shared at one point or another on social media. Now, they can have a home on my own platform. Fair warning, I often don't rhyme. I did write a sonnet (today actually), but it's a bit personal! I also wrote a super badass sonnet in high school and I lost the only handwritten copy I had of it; still upset about that. The Last Colossus [Facebook Post Originally Shared on September 24th, 2017] Context: A modern connection to the famous Em

[Facebook Post Originally Shared on September 12th, 2026] I'm probably in the very last set of individuals who have any possible memory of 9/11, though it is extremely fragmented. I was five years old, and I certainly did not understand the significance, even if I recall the images. What I remember most, on that day, in the weeks following, even in the whole next couple of years, was the struggle and incapability adults had when it came to conveying or explaining to me what e