Happy New Year!

New year, new music, new revelations, new ideas, new love, new growth. Time is a beautiful thing. Although it is only relevant in this plane of existence of eternity, it allows us to live in renewed life and grace with each passing second, minute, day, week, month, year. Think about it: there are 86,400 seconds, 1440 minutes, and 24 hours in just 1 day. Its such an overwhelming thought, that I don’t accept the notion that we don’t [...]

I always thought that my name was a generic, slightly retro, American name. But I never thought it had any meaning outside of the reason my mom gave me for ascribing such tag.

That is until an old friend doing a google search shared with me new revelation. It is of French and Greek origin, not found before the 1920s. It is a combination of either “cherry fruit; green gemstone” or a derivative of the French word Cherie, meaning “dear or [...]

I have been late to work this whole week. What is more disheartening is that my tardiness could have been avoided if I just got out of bed when I first woke up. My morning routine begins with a violent chain of occurences: the alarm shocking me out of dream-land and I manage to instinctive slam down the snooze button, face still grafted to my pillow and eyes still glued shut. Incredibly, this goes on for about 1 hour – [...]

Six (6) more days until I take the grand exam: the bar! And after that very last second, when “pencils down” is called, would mark the official end of my season of studying and the official reintroduction into the normal working/playing world. And if you guys out there are praying people, please lift one (or more) up for me.

My celebration song:

I wonder if personalities come in character prototypes. No matter what new setting or time-space I find myself in, perfect strangers seem to be strangely familiar. And although in any other context the familiarity should bring a sense of comfort, when I think that I’m further along in my journey or have outgrown a box or have learned a lesson, it is quite alarming to come face to face with the same cast of characters, just with different costumes. No [...]

“F*ck being cool. Do something that means something…” – Thurzday

I got a drop in my email box about this new track that Thurzday from U-N-I just dropped. Yannick “Thurz” Koffi, one-half of the group U-N-I, has moved in a new direction in his emcee’ing career. When U-N-I first formed in 2006, they were the trendy emcees in tight pants and Darby Crash hair from Inglewood – with Yannick spitting verses like “It goes Yonas, Yannick, Roblvd hur/with fly girls on [...]

The monotony of life – the repetition of same chores, same dos, same don`ts – sometimes gets the better of you. When nothing seems to be changing, when the colors seem to be dull, when excitement is at the record breaking ebb – your spirits get dampened up. The stench of stillness clouts your nostrils and the bland pace of life withers your tongue. But then does it not happen every time that a sparkling new experience happens to be [...]

I can’t believe that graduation is this weekend!

What a journey this has been. To be frank, I never wanted to be a lawyer. Not that I was against the idea, but it just never entered my mind. In an effort to prolong a decision to get my Ph.D in Psychology, I moved to NY and worked for a homeless outreach organization. On my regular outreach route, I met a former attorney and graduate from Hofstra Law, a Puerto Rican [...]

As spring slowly creeps and winter lingers, I start to realize truly how time flies. But as the seasons change signifying the passing of days, I can’t help but to live in memories as I anticipate what new things await me. And the things that make the most impressions on my memories are the feeling of physical pain or emotional highs. Maybe that is the minds natural protective mechanism for steering favorable future life decisions.

I guess the mind [...]