Toriano Porter
Author. Speaker. Mentor. Journalist.
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19 de abril de 2023 ·
Finding a work/life balance is harrrrrrddddddddd. As an opinion writer for the Kansas City...
4 de diciembre de 2021 ·
Sports parents often get a bad rap. But being the parent of a youth athlete is hard. We invest,...
25 de septiembre de 2021 ·
My day began at 6:30 a.m. I had no idea it would start like an 1980s action movie. The train...
5 de julio de 2021 ·
The last few months have been a whirlwind. Yet, I continue to show up. This year alone, I...
5 de junio de 2021 ·
Some of you may know that my first born son Toriano II was murdered about 12 years ago at age 16....
29 de mayo de 2021 ·
I prayed to God after my 16-year-old son, Toriano II, was shot and killed in north St. Louis. It...
26 de abril de 2021 ·
“This is the biggest fight of my life and I’m gonna win.” - Boris Powell on ALS diagnosis.
My...
18 de enero de 2021 ·
Leaders, how are you showing up for others? Are you offering words of encouragement or tearing...
31 de diciembre de 2020 ·
My first-born son and namesake, Toriano II, was just 16 when he was gunned down outside a...
23 de noviembre de 2020 ·
When I was 12, I was an avid reader of the local newspaper where I grew up, the St. Louis Post...
23 de mayo de 2020 ·
This is not the average career blog post. This is a short journey through my professional arc...
26 de marzo de 2020 ·
Recently, I stopped at a local meat market to stock up on some goods before a shut-in was ordered...
21 de enero de 2020 ·
I am so very grateful to be a Kansas City Public Schools Success Mentor. Ten years ago, life had...
7 de enero de 2020 ·
Today, I cried. Now, did the tears flow from my face like a baby? Nope. Did I boo-hoo like a...
1 de octubre de 2019
Inspired by and written for Wesley Maurice “Milk” Drummond and contained in the book The Pride of...
25 de mayo de 2019 ·
10 YEARS AGO, MY GOOD FRIEND RICKY SIMMS, JR. TOOK HIS OWN LIFE AT the age of 35. Me and Rick...
11 de mayo de 2019
I wrote this piece in Feb. 1999, a few days after The Young General, now 20, was born. I included...
8 de diciembre de 2018
Eleven years ago I worked at my uncle’s gas station as a cashier. I didn’t start out in the...
28 de septiembre de 2018
Prelude Monday, April 22, 2018 would have been my son’s 25th birthday. He was shot and killed in...
27 de septiembre de 2018
I knew why my step sister Antoinette called. I knew exactly what she would say. Still, I had to...
