Staying Sane While Working From Home
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We Need a Moratorium on #NYTough
New York City has a bad a** reputation. Those of us who came of age in the 90s have been known to substitute “Crooklyn” for Brooklyn. We hold Cardi B in the highest regard for identifying as a “Bronx B**tch”. Grit is all of New York’s shared experience–the social glue that transcends class, ethnicity, and …
The Big Return by Elsie Ramsey
For those of us who are newly vaccinated, I’m curious to know how you feel now that we are returning to physical interaction? I am living in an unprecedented emotional state, new to my mental health repertoire. It is as if I am a high school senior about to graduate—filled to the brim with naive …
The Devil We Know by Elsie Ramsey
In the early months of Joe Biden’s Presidency, I often pause to imagine his administration’s capacity for solving even one of the existential crises in full bloom right now. It’s not that I don’t believe President Biden has the best intentions: when he professes virulent opposition to horrors like police brutality towards black Americans, I …
Putting Deacon King Kong on Repeat by Elsie Ramsey
In the whisper of borrowed time that was early March 2020, I went to a reading at the Philadelphia Public Library. Clearly it was fate; my favorite living author, James McBride, appeared clutching his masterful novel like a visiting angel. “May God hold you in the palm of His hand”, say the members of Five …
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Films, Sanity and Black by Elsie Ramsey
Every night, with a small handful of exceptions, I’ve watched a movie in lockdown. I discovered the Criterion Channel and my first, truest love (books) are feeling threatened. It’s been a deep, magical dive into the visual realm. My heart, intellect and spirit have been calmed, awakened, challenged, shattered and rebuilt by cinema’s look at the human …
Fragile as a Child by Elsie Ramsey
Today I left the house to do two errands. It was eventful in contrast with the past weeks of what feel like dress rehearsals for an uncertain future. I will remember nothing of such days in a year or two. Errands in the car are exciting. I look forward to light brushes with strangers, delighting …
The New Way by Elsie Ramsey
On the East Coast, we’ve now been living in phases of quarantine for half a year. The finish line is still not in view. Let’s take a moment to pause and think about the miracle of MAKING IT THROUGH SIX MONTHS. Sure, it’s taken me two tele-therapy sessions a week, additional medication and YouTube energy …
Pandemic Life Earthquakes By Jennifer Scott
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major life changes for people across the world, whether it’s learning to live in isolation for long stretches of time or facing economic hardship due to the loss of a job or closing of a business. Regardless of the life change, there are short- and long-term challenges as well as …
The Silence is Deafening by Elsie Ramsey
We’re in the midst of a global pandemic. America is shut down. Captains of industry, elected officials and journalists are feverishly communicating their concerns in print and over the air waves. Many have noted that it feels similar to a dystopian novel–our social and political structures failing spectacularly. And day after day, hour after hour, …