Recently, a colleague, a friend said to me “Fernandez, you know what gets me about you? I have been trying to figure this out for a long time. It’s the fact that you just say things, straight, with no filter. You have no exit plan either. You say them and then you just exit the …
I deleted his social media profile. Clap it up for me. I think, in a small way, I gave myself a mini round of applause. Over the past few years, I haven’t given much attention to the actual profile itself. It lived in the world of social media spotlights and connections. You know, not the …
My cousin asked me if I sat on my porch. The afternoon air whispered softly as we repotted plants. Where I currently live, there’s a large porch that rests in the middle of the city. One the oozes southern charm. It wraps around the front of my home and is lined with trees, flowers, and …
The mandate for my job to be shut down, for the city to close and for life to come to a screeching haunt came March 11th, 2020. Maybe I, life as I knew it, how I moved about the world came to a screeching halt also. I tried to write. Yet, my brain could not …
She was light. Light that sometimes screamed. Light that sometimes cursed. Light that sometimes even sat on the floor, in the corner, forbidding anyone to say a word to her. She was light, yet, her emotions marinated in the darkest of hours; weighing heavy on her heart. It took us nearly a year, inside of …
Sometimes in the stillness of the evening, I lay awake. I listen to the wind beat the branches into submission. They too need to be still. They too need to find refreshment in solitude. I have officially been in the house, in the house being a relative term, in the house including grocery stores, pharmacy, …
He said to me “You don’t know what you just did. You saved that man.” ‘The tow truck man?’The question I thought in my head, but didn’t say aloud. I could not imagine what I had done to “save” anyone, much less the man who oddly walked up and began rambling about how I’d need …
It’s 2017. I’ve been having quite a time conceptualizing the fact that 2016 has come and gone and my life has changed so much in a matter of countable days. For starters, I have not updated and/or written on my blog for over a year. I could say that I was too busy living, yet …
I’m afraid. I've finally been able to profess this out loud. More afraid of a number of things than I ever thought I was in life. Like, I am afraid of things that breathe that aren’t human (of course I know that Bambi will not kill me, but why are deer so massive in size?) …
If you lead with listening you have no choice but to respond with grace- My Motto
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