You ever meet a person that made you laugh. Made you smile, made you want to conjure up the best scenarios’ that involved bubble baths, champagne and soft kisses? Despite the cotton candy, whipped cream and soft cloud fantasies the one thing you have asked this person to NOT do, repeatedly, is constantly happening. After …
Barbie was considered beautiful when I was a 6 year old girl. When my mother put a relaxer in my hair the same year to straighten my unruly curls, I was relieved. Attention given with my new bob, ends bumped further validated my relief. Sitting between my grandmothers knees with the hot comb murmuring about …
Recently, I set clear definitive goals and put in motion action to make them a reality. This is a first for me. Most that know me would disagree. Stating that hard work and grit were my life long allies of mine. I do have the work ethic of 3 times the me that is actually …
Paul was a very dark skinned Black man. With his beautiful smile and charming disposition, it surprised know one that he created 10 children in his lifetime. My siblings and I did not grow up together. Rather, meeting at various funerals over the years or hearing about one another via the small town gossip vine. …
How Co-Vid 19 Has Inspired Optimism I am a glass half full girl. A forever optimist! Always seeking the sliver lining within any situation. Never do I let life’s circumstances get me down for to long. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I need to take a step back, evaluate what I see before me in …
I recently met a young lady at a local event that reminded me of me at 27 years old. Go getter, naturally beautiful, full of life, smart as a whip with three very lucrative hustles that geared to the uplifting of her people. While speaking with her I could see the passion she possesses for …
Allow me to give testimony. I came from nothing…my mother had three brown children by the time she was 29 years old by three different brown men who didn’t for one reason or another choose to stick around and help. We always had a roof over our head and a space to lay when night …
Most often when the Universe chooses me to deliver a message, I never know it beforehand. It won’t be until I am halfway through the interaction do I come to realize that I am in vessel mode. In that moment of realization I then ask God to open my third eye so I can download …
Last night before I laid down to rest, I thought to myself, turn your phone off. Allow for true rest to take over your spirit tonight. My very next thought was a time when I would never turn my cell off for fear that if my son or husband were to call, I need to …
For a person that loves the smell of books in a library, loves a brand new journal and a pen that writes like butter, living in this age of digital communication is akin to the slowest most painful and colorless death one could imagine. I know, I know I am being a bit dramatic, but …