Saving is a waiting game, but I can still be active in budgeting, learning and looking ahead. LEARNING About EXISTING “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Pexels.com A nice thought: I remember watching The Lord of the... Continue Reading →
Strides: Update 4, part 1
It has been a year. A YEAR, since Strides: Update 3, part 2. 10 MONTHS since Kool-Aid Money, Champlain Taste. How quickly time flies! Given it has been a while, I will summarize my update in three separate posts: 1. Budgeting (6/21), 2. Learning (6/28), and 3. Looking [Ahead] (7/5)*. Saving is a waiting game,... Continue Reading →
0% of Black Americans??? Count people, not percentage. | For city and for country, count me in for Amy Klobuchar for President
I am an independent African American female voter who has called Greater Boston home for a little over a decade. My first time voting in a presidential election, I was inspired by the message and vision of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: Hope and Change, “Change we can believe in.” I along with nearly 60... Continue Reading →
In the News: “The Homecomers”: Those staying and investing in their rural communities
"To find a more accurate vision of these United States, we must resist pat narratives about any group — including the working class on whom our current political situation is most often pinned. The greatest con of 2016 was not persuading a white laborer to vote for a nasty billionaire with soft hands. Rather, it... Continue Reading →
Black Homeownership & Generational Wealth, 3/3 Kool-Aid money, Champlain taste + Dirrty Details of Budgeting
the IDEAL If reality has knocked me sideways, lying along the shore of Lake Champlain, at sunset, on a balmy, summer, Friday afternoon, is a nice place to look up from the ground. Why so salty? Some have said that in our culture, people are quicker to openly talk about sex than to talk... Continue Reading →
In the News: “The Great Land Robbery”, The Dispossession of Black Land Owners in the Mississippi Delta
The Atlantic, September Issue 2019 An article by Vann R. Newkirk II The Great Land Robbery "The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms" Excerpt: "In 1900, according to the historian James C. Cobb, black landowners in Tunica County outnumbered white ones three to one. According to the... Continue Reading →
Strides: Update 3, part 2
Image: Vecteezy.com In 2017, before the idea of moving to Vermont ever came to mind, I simply wanted to find a way to spend more time in nature. I found it challenging figuring out how (I don’t have a car), where and with whom. At one point, my longing for a life I did not actually have was... Continue Reading →
Strides: Update 3, part 1
Welcome to Strides: Update 3, my latest update on real-life moves towards a home in the country, on a budget, as a Black, American, Millenial, Female. ••• Connecting Over the past several months, I had the privilege of connecting with Professor Emily Bernard and Professor Jonathan Howard, in thinking through the following topics, respectively: the complexity and nuance of black identity... Continue Reading →
New England’s White Open Spaces
Say What? Ehem. This title is 100% intended to catch your attention and to entice you to read on. It is also a near-100%-accurate phrasal snapshot of the demographics of rural New England, which is where one finds the state of Vermont, which is where I am looking to move. New England has been the focus... Continue Reading →
Human • Nature
Environmental Justice & Stewardship is the fourth pillar of this City Strides to the Countryside project. This post is a teaser and placeholder for the first full-length post on Environmental Justice & Stewardship. Much of the content of this section will focus on sustainable living as it relates to green home construction, green renovations for a... Continue Reading →