Something You Could Be Proud Of
"There are three things that I will ever ask of you in this space: 1. Don't curse me out, or I will curse you out. 2. Always try. 3. Always bet on yourself." ~Ms. Webb, M.S., CCC-SLP, TSSLD, October 2021, Bronx, NY Those were the words I told my kids during my first week at my dream school. To you I may be a poet, your favorite blogger, sister, cousin, auntie, girlfriend, or your new favorite doula, but during the day, I am a speech-language pathologist at an all boys high school in The Bronx-- the South Bronx to be exact. And to my babies, I have become home. Stepping into that building on my first day was a full circle moment. My family is rooted in the South Bronx. My great-aunt lives five minutes away from my school in the apartment my mother used to play in, in the projects where she and her siblings used to make family out of the neighbors and kids in the park. I always said all I ever wanted to do was work in a low-income community with childre