And it needs to happen quickly — As someone who loves the ocean and marine life, I stay awake at night thinking about my role in helping to protect it. There are a million different ways to go about conservation, climate change, and the myriad of different issues we’re facing as a society. Over the years, it…

An African proverb — I recently listened to a podcast episode from “On Being.” The interviewee, Jason Reynolds, mentioned this African proverb, “when an old man dies, a library is burned.” I was driving in my car, admiring the sun that was slowly disappearing over the horizon, and suddenly tears began to swell up…

A reminder before it is too late — I recently finished watching the documentary involving Will Smith called “One Strange Rock.” It uncovered a powerful feeling within me that I haven’t felt in a while. I’ve never taken the time to fully understand the miracle that it is to be walking and breathing on the surface of something…

How much I think of you — I hope you know how much I think of you, from the moment I first answered your cry for help. You may have said that you were fine, but your eyes told a different story - like an old dam, ready to burst at the cracks. When I told you…

Is your beauty a disguise? — why life do you have to be so cruel sometimes it seems that you hide behind a disguise of sunsets that take our breath away or the contrast of a palm tree swaying over the shoreline why life can you appear to be so beautiful and then in a split second those sunsets and those palm trees are tainted red from our hearts…