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Essays and Reflections in Local & Academic Newspapers Across the United States

The Harvard Crimson

Coronavirus Is Not Color Blind

April 9, 2020

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Author Profile

April 9, 2020

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Yahoo! Finance

Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion Help Workplaces

August 14, 2020

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More Essays and Reflections in Local & Academic Newspapers and Publications Across the United States

OF DANDELION. THEIR SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

April 9, 2020

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THE SOUND THAT SAYS LOVE. APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!”

April 9, 2020

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STAYING AT HOME IS A PRIVILEGE DURING CORONAVIRUS

Published: August 14, 2020
COVID-19 has most of us locked down in our homes glued to our screens, either browsing social media or binge-watching Tiger King on Netflix to see what the fuss is all about. We listen to officials on the news constantly, many of them telling us that COVID-19 does not care about our class, religion, or race — the disease infects anybody it can. In theory, that is true; however, what I have seen and heard over the past couple of weeks shows that racial dynamics are not absent during this crisis. The virus may not care who you are, but society still does.

When I go out in Harvard Square, I see multiple individuals on the streets running in and out of Sweetgreen or Felipe’s to deliver food to customers who placed an order online…

STAYING AT HOME IS A PRIVILEGE DURING CORONAVIRUS

ENVIRONMENT AND THE PANDEMIC PAUSE

Published: August 14, 2020
THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE HARVARD EXTENSION ENVIRONMENT CLUB

As I click leave meeting on my yet another prolonged Zoom call, I couldn’t help but look out the window to relax my eyes that have been under immoderate strain lately. Outside the window I admire the John Hancock building shimmering the Boston skyline, but something seems bizarre in the New England air….

OF DANDELION. THEIR SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

Published: August 14, 2020
I had been up all night working on an article on global warming/climate change. The subject, serious, is draining, demanding, necessarily thought
provoking, disturbing. As the sun began to rise, showing its intentions by the
first light of a brand-new day, I wrote the last word... and went immediately into
the Cambridge Common for air, for light, to be freed from the sobering realities
of my midnight researches.

At this early hour, where the vestiges of night still prevailed, as if unwilling to
leave, there was no one present... and this distressed me, for I was in need of a
smile, a word or two of greeting, and (were I fortunate) a friend. For my night's work had been long and distressful, spent considering the vulnerabilities of Earth and the growing likelihood that our species, having had our way with this planet, was unwilling, perhaps unable, to do what is necessary to save our only, our collective home. Yes, I needed a friend... and solace.

OF DANDELION. THEIR SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

'THE SOUND THAT SAYS LOVE. APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!”

Published: August 14, 2020
This article is long overdue. It will be read with avidity, total agreement, and a rain of kudos for me from anyone who writes, sings, plays, paints, acts, mimes, speaks, or does deeds of daring- do on the flying trapeze. All of us, every single one of us, not only relishes the recognition of applause, not only craves it right down to the last clap, but lives for it... as the one essential element we must ….

THE SOUND THAT SAYS LOVE. APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!