At the intersection of 38th and Meridian in Indianapolis, four neighborhoods come together, and by some standards Crown Hill neighborhood is the outcast of that quartet. Much has been written about the storied history of Butler Tarkington or Mapleton-Fall Creek (The Polis Center), and the Meridian Kessler neighborhood association even has its own paid employee.
Read MoreIn March 2020 schools across the country had to adapt to an online only model. Overnight, parents scrambled to accommodate their schedules to their children’s redesigned school day. Initially, schools were relieved that MacBooks and iPads were in use over the past few years. However, the pandemic would stretch resources and reveal serious cracks in
Read MoreThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe over the last fourteen months. One of the major effects it has had is on the local economy and the ability of individuals to support themselves and families in the face of limited movement and income. While large corporations have deep safety nets to fall
Read More“How does it feel to be a white woman running the Martin Luther King Jr Community Center during a racial uprising in the middle of a pandemic?” she asked. When my mental health therapist posed this question to me in July 2020 through the computer screen, I laughed out loud, and then realized she was
Read MoreFood InsecurityAccording to Feeding America (2021), severe food insecurity can be defined as the eatingpatterns of one or more household members being disrupted and daily food intake reduced due toa lack of funds or other resources for food. In 2019, the overall food insecurity rate was thelowest it had been in more than twenty years
Read MoreI think it safe to say that Covid-19 has shaped the way we interact and think about our day-to-day activities. Even though Covid-19 had not affected everyone the same, each person has experienced the changes of Covid-19 in their environments. For some neighborhoods the change is merely making sure that residents are socially distancing while
Read MoreAnxiety. For some of us, it is something that may happen in the most extreme circumstances under severe stress and pressure. For others, it is a way of life. Living with severe anxiety is not something that you would see someone bragging about, yet there is a large portion of individuals who have experienced severe
Read MoreFlashback to March 12, 2020, reading an email from President McRobbie about campus closing while surrounded by all of my friends in the Math Assistance Center and a trip to Gatlinburg planned for Spring break the next weekend. I never would have thought this is what life in college would look like. We all expected
Read MoreIn the beginning of the year 2020, I was working as a valet at the J.W. Marriott but in the drop of a hat the world seemed to flip upside down. In one moment I was in the middle of my sophomore year of college and the next thing I knew I was back home
Read MoreThe topic I will be discussing for my blog is how my life was impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Let me just say that before the pandemic, in terms of what I did outside of school and work, was not much. So my life currently has not deviated from my usual. I am what
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