I Am Wide Awake

Although I’ve been an avid user of all kinds of technological devices and instruments, I have only recently discovered the fact that I had never used or familiarized myself with one of the most instrumental and popular features of modern technology.

Before you assume differently, I know that I should finally open my eyes, and as they say, wake up and smell the coffee. Yes, I know that we are already a whole month into the new year of 2022, facing snowstorms and freezing temperatures.

I have no doubt that anyone reading even the first few sentences of this column will guess my age and they will definitely be right on the money. Yet, although I am not a kid anymore and I’ve gone through the so-called many phases of life, I do not consider myself a close-minded person.

You can always think that the world is an orderly place when growing up as a kid and surrounded by grownups who look like they know exactly what they’re talking about. 

I hope I am not being totally unrealistic or naive when I say that I honestly thought the rallying cry against the cruel, excessive and inhuman treatment of Black people who are suspected by the police of breaking the law would actually come from the white segment of our society.

I’d like to admit that I have always been fascinated by the concept of being “born again.” Myself being raised in an Orthodox Church, where a person’s Christian identity has been sealed and imprinted at his infancy, which can never be  questioned, I find the aspiration of a person now as an adult and mature individual willing to reaffirm his fai

It has passed three years since the Alabama Republican governor, Kay Ivey, during the congregational elections, referring to the Senate candidate Roy Moore, accused of child molestation, made her infamous claim that, “We’d rather have a child molester in the Senate than a Democrat.” Although three years is a long time, that statement still echoe

It has been a couple of weeks or so since the day when U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) addressed his female colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the most obscene and sexist language.