I took Latin for three years in high school (Shout out to Professora Gutierrez & FLHS University Scholars) It’s served my vocabulary very well. One of the words that’s been on my mind since I came to grad school was “discipulus” Discipulus is Latin for student, pupil or trainee.. When I looked at the word…
Category: Discourse Analysis
Go Straight Home: Duty, Honor and Peace
Go Straight Home Ideas of home, focus and discipline have been coming up over and over as I begin my twenty-fifth year in a new city. Moving three time zones and over 2,000 miles from my “hometown” in Queens, NY, has given me an opportunity to rethink what home is/ what it could be, to…
Go Straight Home: A Blessing in a (cautionary) Lesson
Go Straight Home Now that I’ve moved to Arizona, the farthest distance from my hometown in Springfield Gardens, New York – a lot of stories and sayings come to me at moments. Often times, I take these mental gems as a message from my ancestors, intuition, trauma or societal brainwashing – either way, it presents…