No better way to spend a Monday evening
Jasmine and Tomika graduated from 8th grade! I got a text from Jasmine on June 8th – 2 day i found out that i am graduating i am so HAPPY Read more…
Jasmine and Tomika graduated from 8th grade! I got a text from Jasmine on June 8th – 2 day i found out that i am graduating i am so HAPPY Read more…
Strangers have been so nice recently! 1. I left my Shuffle in an unlocked gym locker; returned twelve hours later, and it was still there. It being “lose weight” season, Read more…
Jasmine asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could help her write an essay for a high school application. I told her to start working on it and Read more…
Three of the Englewood kids slept over on Friday. Ten, eleven, and fourteen, two brothers, Emmanuel and Devonte, and their cousin Jasmine. They’re funny and inquisitive. They rip on, or Read more…
In texting with Jasmine, I feel obligated to refrain from common texting-vernacular, such as “u” instead of “you.” Perhaps putting too much weight to our back and forths, usually nothing Read more…
From one of the kids I met through a volunteer program I coordinated, a Saturday morning enrichment program at their Englewood school. Good kids, bad school, bad neighborhood. Met Jasmine Read more…