"Why are we Pretending Like What is Happening Isn't Happening?"

Reaching the Crisis Point

1989 - New York City. I was attending NYU’s Dramatic Writing program for the one semester I would attend, before dropping out because my student loan from a previous city college had defaulted and I couldn’t get a new one. But for one semester I got to be an NYU student. I was not smart enough to realize that, along with my tuition, I also got free meal…