I originally wrote this post after the murder of George Floyd and opted not to post. With the news and video release of the Jacob Blake being gunned down in the back. I could no longer let my thoughts sit in the draft folder. I still remember the last video I ever watched of an […]

Every day after finishing my program, I waited for someone to take my doctorate away.

24 hours later, and I still don’t want to believe it. If I ignore ESPN, stay off social media, then maybe, just maybe they will all still be alive. The news of Kobe Bryant dying in a plane crash is a nightmare that I want to wake up from. The moment I opened Facebook yesterday […]

Throughout my 30 plus years on this earth, I have learned what questions are appropriate and what questions are inappropriate to ask women. Most people know not to ask women their age or their weight, but there is one question that I have seen cause tremendous damage. I am begging everyone who is reading this […]

“Life is what you make it, I hope you make a movement / Hope your opportunity survives the opportunist / Hopin’ as you walk across the sand, you see my shoe print / And you follow ’til it change your life, it’s all an evolution / And I hope you find your passion ’cause I […]

Almost every day I check my Facebook solely for the memories page to see what crazy thing I posted back in the day before I became the person who I am today. Honestly, the only difference between myself on social media 10 years ago vs. today is that I just don’t hit the send button […]

“Professionals are expected to exercise discretionary judgment in their field,” (Lipsky, 2010 pg. 14). Well, we all know how well some professionals exercise discretion in their chosen field and the life-altering effect it has. Whether that be cops ending an innocent person’s life or a high school counselor failing to enroll their student in the […]

“If you think hard work is expensive, wait until you get the bill for mediocre.” When I first heard this statement, it hit me hard because, well it’s true. As the price of education continues to rise, I often find myself having to convince students that the price tag is worth it, the student loan […]

Ever since I entered higher education as a student quite a few years ago, graduating in four years was the most significant stressor for college students. I struggled to live up the pressure of graduating in four years. I found myself taking on way too many classes to graduate in four years and found myself […]

I just wrapped up 46 pages of “The American Policy Landscape” by Rippner (2016), which discussed the structures and policies as relates to education. Each state, actually each county all have their vision of what constitutes as educational needs of the children their community. Education is the wild wild west, and until those who control […]