NOTES FROM MY JOURNAL: So, I made the mistake of waking up this morning and, instead of checking the weather like a normal adult who has to get dressed and someplace to be, I opened an Instagram reel a friend sent me at 2 a.m. First mistake. He’s in L.A. He apparently forgets that I …
It seems that lately, every morning I wake up, look at the headlines, (silly me!) and hear Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On playing in my head. Fifty-plus years later, and somehow, we’re still asking the same damn question. Back then, the song was about war, poverty, division, injustice, and people pleading for compassion. It wasn’t …