Feeling Good Archives - Oakland Voices

Flores flowering in gratitude

July 27, 2018 Patricia Contreras-Flores

Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love form. I stumbled upon a poem that my former student

Party Your Way Into Fitness at Club Ritmo!

July 6, 2018 Tonya Shipp

Club Ritmo Fitness is located a few blocks from the Fruitvale BART station. From the Number 1 bus that runs up and down International Boulevard, it’s the stop just before or after the BART Station,

One of the Many

March 12, 2018 Ryan Barba

In my last article, I profiled Missio Dei Oakland. In this article, I write about how I joined the church. Entering the darkest phase of my existence in 2015, I had developed the mentality of

The Power of Christ in East Oakland

February 15, 2018 Ryan Barba

Missio Dei Oakland (MDO) is a house church network that is positively serving disadvantaged people in East Oakland through compassion, personal connection and spreading the gospel. In July 2012, a church start -up team of

Love letter to the Fruitvale

December 15, 2017 Patricia Contreras-Flores

Kalil and I were in bed just last night and at about 8 p.m. we heard firecrackers outside our bedroom window. Several rounds of fire crackers-crackle, boom, swoosh. We just laughed hard, what are

Martial Arts Sifu Bill Owens Reflects on his 50th Year

June 15, 2017 Kat Ferreira

It’s Saturday afternoon and three rows of children stand frozen in anticipation, waiting for their Martial Arts Master, Sifu Bill Owens, to walk them through the next sequence of gestures. After the children mirror his

Cascos Martial Arts Academy – A Photo Essay

June 15, 2017 =

O.G. Beat Meet, a video story

May 9, 2017 =

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Faces of Bay Area PLAN’s Family FEST

May 1, 2017 =

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A Holiday Party: A Time for Games

December 22, 2016 Monica Green

“2016 seems like it just went by in a minute!” my friend wrote in an email where we were bantering about the passage of time. “Now time just goes by in a flash! It really