Author Archives: Pootie

I passed my first year of graduate school. I spent the past ten years of my life convincing myself that I wasn’t intelligent enough to do what I am currently doing. And the beautiful paradox in this is that my biggest lesson learned in my first year of this program is that I believe that […]

My Dearest Community, Thank you for all the wonderful birthday messages. I am just returning from a five day long intensive that is related to the career change that I embarked on about a year ago. The last year of my life, and turning 40, was the most prolific year of my life that brought […]

I have had so much on my mind recently, particularly with the consistently increasing violence and hatred in this world. The physical condition of our planet is a direct reflection of the mental health status of us as a collective, which is currently very dire. I am very aware that we, as both a whole […]

I have been waiting to see a specific retinal specialist since August; there was a suspicion that there was something wrong with my eyes that would at some point, cause me to lose my ability to see color. As you can imagine, this was absolutely devastating for me to hear, as my whole life revolves […]