After several days of fast and furious writing, I feel like I am hitting a little bit of a slump hence no post yesterday. As usual there were plenty of ideas swirling around in my head but for some reason despite sitting at the computer they never made it out of my head. In the …
Considering that one of my paying gigs involves writing about diversity in Maine, it was with great interest that I listened to the findings that were released from the Census Bureau yesterday about the state of Maine. It seems that between 2000 and 2010 Maine’s Black population increased by 132%! In real numbers that means …
Sometimes it’s easy when you are struggling to make ends meet or to get access to adequate healthcare and just struggling in general to assume that others especially those often deemed privileged by our culture have it easier. After all if one is wealthy enough or beautiful by society’s standards what struggles could such folks …