JOURNALS OF JO

I keep putting off writing this letter to you because it’s not something I want o do. Because it seems so final. Even though, now as I...

I will stand accountable for my actions and if they have consequences that I think are too hard for me to bear I will not drag down innocent

But saying it with words just doesn't do it. The effort isnt seen in working hard, studying, failing, failing and faiing again...

The rest of us, you know, women? We don't need you to teach other young women that it's okay to accept an insult.

THE WHO I AM NOW This thing called self image, the who I am now, right now. So I'm looking in the mirror at this person and she is...

After waiting up for hours and hours until the sun came up over the horizon of the tall buildings in this dark city where we live and where

Because it’s never my intention to hurt anyone but to open people up to a better expression of themselves. I won’t back down and cower befor

A stately eagle or vulture or hawk flies by as they each survey their land. Looking for prey. The rushing waters of the rivers below seem

I've spent my entire life trying to be better than where I came from. Where I'm from, the girls there, don't usually make it out of the...

But that very moment when you accept for a certainty that the loss, that it's real and permanent, your life changes. Sometimes it’s subt