Can I tell you something? I’ve basically lived my entire life in fear…of the most ridiculous things. I’ve been scared of people thinking I’m arrogant, of people thinking I’m mediocre. Scared of doing something I care about badly. Scared of failing. Scratch that – terrified of failing. I’ve even been scared of having my dreams...
Hey, you. How’s it going? Did you do the MySchoolDC lottery? This is the first year since 2017 that I wasn’t hitting that refresh button every five minutes on results day. But it’s also a happy story – after years of not getting in to the school we wanted, or discovering that school wasn’t actually...
It’s a new year (well, a few weeks into one in any case), and I’m making some changes. 2020 was HARD, no two ways about it. But it was also transformative for me. I feel like I really discovered what my purpose is with my work last year, and why what I do is...
It was a disaster area. Everywhere you looked there was something on the ground. Piles upon piles. My eyes started to tear up and I could feel my anger rising. “What did you do?!?” “I made burfday cake! See? burfday cake YOU!” my two year old said, handing me a handful of crumpled shirts. In...
