“Mommy, but kids can’t die right?” That is the question my daughter asked me as we were walking up to the vigil for Jamyla Bolden, the 9-year-old girl from Ferguson who was fatally shot while sitting on her mothers’ bed doing homework by a…
Time has progressively shown the value of education and has proven that the further along you go, the higher your salary will be depending on your profession. There has been an influx of adults choosing to go back to school just to keep up…
“I don’t care what the statistics say. This little Black girl believes in the power of prayer as well as counseling and therapy” – this is a status I posted a few months ago to FB and it continues to resonate. In honor of…
Show of hands, ladies, how many times do we get caught in the habit of over extending ourselves just to do for other people? We will swear up and down that there is a visible S on our chest and immune from burnout. I…
Can I just be real with y’all for a second? I finally put myself in a position to sit down and just…write. No first drafts, no edits, just pure & raw emotion with fingers to the keyboard. This is definitely new for me as…
It’s just something about the holiday season that makes me feel all warm and what not. I’m usually not one for the mushy stuff but seriously, the winter holiday season has a way of giving me a good feeling. I love Christmas-y smelling candles,…
