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 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 […]
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 […]
I once read that God removes people from your life because He heard conversations that you didn’t hear. It’s funny how the truth always has a way of eventually coming to light, even if it’s several years later. I’m speaking of betrayal and the toll that it can take on you over time. It’s like […]
Little known fact- I’ve always been fascinated with anything pertaining to the science of space- the last frontier. The older I get, the more I realize that science, philosophy, and spiritually are inextricably tied. In fact, ALL things are bound together in some way, shape, or form. The mysteries that are out there can also […]
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… […]
As I sit back and reflect upon everything going on in America, I can’t seem to shake this feeling of deep sadness for the conditions that people of African descent are experiencing here in the states and around the world. As a mother it pains me that my children are coming of age in a […]
There comes a time when you can’t run and hide and you’re going to have to stand up and fight. We constantly hear messages from the sages speaking of passivity and letting everything go. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always work in the real world and in real time. Often times people take advantage of the “nice […]
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 […]
