Uncultured Hybrid

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd The fighting spirit in me wasn't always ignited. When I was younger I was bullied and I could never stand up for myself. All I could ever do was cry. So my experience of being on the receiving end of injustices ignited the fighting spirit in me.  You see, I don't know if it was always in me and I just didn't know it or if it is something I acquired over the years. I am not certain if I inherited it from one or both of my biological parents or if I inherited from my mom (aunt). All I know is that I fight battles that aren't even mine at times. I just can't stand people not being treated fairly. I can't accept people taking advantage of those who can't defend  themselves (not defending oneself does not mean that you are weak). It just says that people fight battles differently. Some, like Martin Luther King, will go out to the streets a...

My friend Isalina and I always beat ourselves down about consistency. She has a YouTube channel and her goal is to post twice a week but she often doesn't fulfill this goal. For me and my blog post I have a goal to post once a week but if you are here you know I don't do that.  So as I was thinking about this it dawned on me that we can be consistent in different ways. What prompted this blog is that I have started a podcast and I was second guessing whether I would be consistent. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary consistency is the quality or fact of staying the same at different times.  So if I look at this definition I see that consistency is not about time but about quality. That's what I want for my podcast and blogs; to be consistent with the quality of the work I deliver. I may not post every week but I want to ensure that when I post I post quality.  Often we try to stick to tight schedules. Like posting everyday so that our followers, reader...

I had to take a deep breath before I started writing. I don't really know what direction this post will take but let's see what we will end up with. Challenges, huh! The things that remind us that we are human and that we can do nothing on our own. So on the 18th of March 2021 I discovered what the lump, I have been feeling on the lower right-hand part of my abdomen, for the most part of a year, is. Let's go back a little.  Around April 2020, I was rubbing my abdomen because period cramps were killing me. Suddenly I felt something, so I continued to press and try to feel what was going on because of my history. I have had a cyst removed from my right breast and so I have a higher chance of cysts appearing somewhere else. That's just the problem of hormonal imbalance.  So let's get back to the lump. I thought it may just be a cyst. Due to the pandemic and my frail health I prolonged visiting the doctor. When I finally did, November 2020, the first doctor ...