Happy New Year 2026! We have officially entered the second half of the 2020 decade and the second quarter of the century. Last year was a milestone year for me. I reached a milestone age (not saying which) and made a series of sweeping changes to my life that will set me on the path …
Author: Takisha J. Edwards
Being Positive Is Hard Right Now. I Don’t Really Want To Do It
I started this blog with the intention of being positive. Not toxically positive, but enough to never let hope or encouragement die in an ever-growing cloud of difficult times. Not a cringey brand of positive, but just a dash of positivity enough to counteract the outrage, rage-bait, maliciousness and any other form of intentional negativity online with …
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Happy New Year! Here’s to Big Change
As the saying goes, "The only thing constant in life is change", or something like that. I know I cannot speak for all Americans, but I think it is safe to say that life feels different now. Maybe it doesn't apply to just Americans, maybe the whole world feels different. I don't know how and …
Blind to the Living
I've been thinking about death recently. The final move in this game called life. I've been thinking about what it is and why it is the way that it is and what happens afterward. I attended a funeral recently. It was not my first time attending one, but it was the first time that I …
Cracks In The Sidewalk
Humans beings are creatures of habit. We create routines and stick to them. Our moves are predictable. Even the most free-spirited, spontaneous, leaf-in-the-wind of a person will faithfully stick to their spur-of-the-moment regimen; seeing as any sort of meticulous, carefully thought-out planning would just be too out of the ordinary for their lifestyle. But why …
Shangri-La
I turned 28 in 2023. Twenty-eight long years on this Earth and yet time seems to jet on by, racing and soaring through the clouds trying to make it to the finish line. Twenty-eight long years on this Earth and a constant cycle of building experience on top of experience creating a tower higher than …
The Exercise I Didn’t Know I Needed
Some of the benefits of travel are obvious. You get to experience a new culture, meet new people, see sights, and see how other communities operate. Upon returning home, you experience a sense of peace and fondness (coupled with a disappointment of returning back to your normal routine) after taking in the beautiful bounty of …
Common Ground in the Underground
I decided to take the F train home today. It was past 7 pm; the last express bus leaving from Manhattan going to my neighborhood in Queens had long departed the East Side. Unfortunate, but I just finished working a 12-hour shift and did not have the faintest amount of energy in me to care …
Why Should People Read My Blog?
I stopped living. You read that right. I stopped living. I cannot pinpoint the exact time it happened; it was a gradual decline. As the years passed, this moment slowly creeped up, like a predator secretly stalking, watching, waiting from among the leaves of tall grass. And when I finally realized what had happened, I …
What I Learned Today 