There in the place of expectations… — I waited for you to meet me where it was we first met I retraced my steps even the ones I leaped stumbled, fumbled and hopped over As I rode the overpass past the slippery steep jagged rocks and looked toward the clearing Even when the nocturnal wave was nearing I still…

a poem — What is loyalty? Is it for you? or Is it for me? Should I be loyal to someone who has never shown loyalty to me? It’s strange to think that opinions are treated like royalty by our society But when I appoint myself a silver crown or my own crimson gown that…

But also know when using cliches creates relatability. — As a high school English teacher and poet, I’ve learned how each word counts — and I don’t just mean that because I check word counts often, but because the use of precise diction weeds out cliches. What’s a cliche? It’s when a writer uses common sayings like idioms rather…

After ghosting social media for many years… — I get it, so many couples crashed and burned during the pandemic. So many women felt “lesser than” due to failed marriages even when they didn’t have anything to be ashamed of. So much so, that they dropped off the face of this earth when going through a divorce. Although…

they like to make up lies and dress you up in a disguise — when you're smart and beautiful they like to make up lies and dress you up in a disguise while looking you right in the eye like when she told me my claim was irrelevant and yet found “facts” in unfounded statements -only after offering me fake flattery weeks before she…

Challenging dress code, gender identity, and human rights — Have you heard of the Toronto area high school trans teacher who sent shockwaves around the world when she showed up to school with obscenely large prosthetic breasts? Welp, now you have! Kayla Lemieux, the Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher unleashed a debate over dress codes and human rights…

When microaggressions become commonplace — I wonder how many people can relate to being told that they don’t look like their identity. I also wonder who can understand what it’s like to endure the new form of antisemitism that Ben Freeman describes as “Erasive Antisemitism” which is “connected to other categorizations of antisemitism, such as…