I’ve never really been an overly fearful person in life. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing? The only thing I ever feared was leaving this Earth before my children got to a certain age and when I was younger- losing my parents before I became of age- that’s it! Well… […]
Where do I begin? If Kevin Hart hadn’t already wrote a book called I Can’t Make This Up, I definitely would! Or even better, Issa Rae’s web series, The Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl, would be a hilarious comparison to parts of my life- minus the single and awkward part. The fact of the […]
Well, well… in my sinister Maleficent voice… look who has finally decided to get started…. ME! I’ve been longing to write a blog for years and made every excuse in the book not to complete the task. For years, I’ve enthusiastically helped others find their dream jobs as I worked tirelessly as a Recruiter, HR […]
As each day passes on my husband’s week long sojourn to the Motherland, I can’t help but feel envy and excitement- wonder and awe at the beauty that he gets to behold in the land of our ancestors. I anxiously await his FaceTime calls to get a tiny glimpse of the majesty of South Africa. […]
As I binge watch the 1st season of “And Just Like That”, a show that beautifully displays the women of “Sex and the City” transitioning from the friendship that they had in their 30’s & 40’s to a more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50’s- I can’t help but smile and realize […]
I once read that you will find The One when you aren’t looking. You’ll find The One when you least expect it. The One will appear in divine time, and that “two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.” I believe that there is order in all of the chaos of life and matters […]
As the words left her mouth the friendship that we had known for decades could never be the same. I felt numb and devoid of emotion as my mind grappled to comprehend the syllables that dropped from her red wine stained lips like black rain. The old adage says that, “a drunken man’s words are […]
Have you ever been so far out in a body of water that you knew you couldn’t turn back. The only way out was to try and make it to the other side- not to stop, but instead to keep treading through to shore. Marriage is like being in the ocean. It’s vast, deep, beautifully […]
As they closed the casket while the song Taps was being played on a bugle- it was the military shots being fired outside the church that shook me to my core. There is a finality to that sound that resonates somewhere deep within. You realize that your loved one is gone from this earthly plain […]
The rickshaw driver followed us into the famous Italian pizzeria in a sketchy part of Greenwich Village that Friday night screaming at the top of his lungs and no one looked up. The owner approached our table dressed in a white wife beater, a towel draped over his shoulder, and an attitude of being unbothered […]
We released him into the wild and when he looked back to see if we were still there, my heart shattered into a million pieces. My husband gave the order with a serious nod, a sign to go after him. It was the day that we drove our son to the airport to begin his […]
Have you ever felt like you just don’t fit in? You may be successful and have several friends, but something deep inside of you feels like the mothership took off, left Earth for another galaxy and left you behind. Despite what others may project onto you there is a piece of you that can relate […]
