Tongue of Fire

I left Etsy because I won’t chase visibility in someone else’s machine or profit from a platform that turns human suffering into merch. My kids, even when they were little, watched my choices. They're still watching. And silence is complicity.

Over 100 lives were lost in the Texas flood—many of them children. As the waters recede, we're left with urgent questions: What caused this? Who’s responsible? And how do we separate truth from noise? This post explores the tragedy, the media's response, and why learning to verify information isn’t just smart—it’s compassionate.

Alan Turing helped end WWII early by cracking the Nazi Enigma code. His reward? Arrest, chemical castration, and eventual suicide—because he was gay. His story reminds us: being different isn’t the danger. Erasing difference is. Comfort isn’t morality. Kindness is.

Frederick Douglass knew the truth: literacy makes people unfit for slavery. As Juneteenth approaches, here's why real education still threatens unjust power.