“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”  ― Mahatma Gandhi Of all the gifts my parents have bestowed upon me during my life, without question, the greatest of these is this: integrity. It’s a word often tossed around without much thought about what it means—what it truly means—not […]

Sometimes you can fix things. Sometimes you can’t. Either way, you’ve got to move forward.

The search for children whose cards provided hope in the midst of Katrina chaos.   August 29, 2015 marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. While the media flooded the world with an overload of dismal aftermath imagery, such were memories that those of us who had […]

A God Wink that led to a Garth Brooks encounter Do you believe in Destiny? That’s the question I posed on the very first post that kicked off The Right Brain Diaries blog in October of 2014. Over the next few months, I shared the chapters of an epic adventure with a real life fairy tale […]

I am a word nerd. For me, writing is a passion. It’s just something I’ve always loved. The thing about writing is that it’s not something  one can really do on demand. Ideas come and go, and often times, if they’re not scribbled down, they’re gone for good. But every now and then, inspiration hits and […]

Recently, when reading the news online, I stumbled upon a headline that stunned me. The story reported that a small group of Tulane students who were dissatisfied with the university’s announcement that the very accomplished journalist and Today Show host Hoda Kotb had been selected to deliver the Class of 2016’s commencement address. The students declared that they […]