Life

February’s Reflections + March’s Intentions


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Remember me? Although my presence around the blogosphere hasn’t been too apparent, I’ve been getting a lot of things done behind the scenes. February was good to me. I honestly can’t complain too much about all that has occurred. With all of the good, I’m finding it so much harder to focus on the few bad days that I’ve had.     I think my biggest accomplishment for February was my acceptance of an opportunity to teach Algebra I sessions to the underserved community, which I talked about in my  ...

Career

On teaching the underserved youth


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I woke up before the sun today. That seems to be the normal thing these days. Life has been quite eventful in both good and bad ways. My thesis has been pushed back again, but all for good reason in my opinion. I started a new instructional journey on the weekends with my university’s upward bound program. The program provides additional instructional assistance for high school students. And while this program is supposed to be a supplement, after conversing and working with my students, I’m finding that it’s just the  ...

Life

My Path to Minimalism.


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Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things that we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. -Joshua Becker, “Simplify” I have too much shit. Straight up. I can’t think of any other way to describe my current situation other than stating the obvious. I have too much shit and I need to get rid of it. I don’t think I’m a hoarder but I do tend to hold on to stuff Just-In-Case. And when I sat down and was honest with myself, I realized that the Just-In-Case stuff became  ...