One of my essays has been published, in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, the literary journal at Johns Hopkins University. The title is “A Time to Lament,” speaking of a need to examine our lives and our responsibilities toward one another. A caveat: this has descriptions of racism and violence. Of course, I abhor the hatred and objectification of others, never mind violence against another person. Any is horrid. A piece of writing should ideally need no explanation, but in writing this I couldn’t help but be affected by all the terrible sadness foisted on us in this terribly heated, divisive time. In piecing this together from family history, I couldn’t help but be thinking, too, about casting off rhetoric of hate and seeking to advance to be better.