“Instinct leads me to another flow, Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a b****or a hoe, Trying to make a sister feel low,You know all of that gots to go…” Ahhh, the ever so poetic words hailing from the Queen herself…Latifah that is. The truth she spoke back in 1993, still holds …
For me, forgiveness and regret were two unified entities, which were knotted together and wrapped around my throat. There was no separation between the two, and in my world, forgiveness and regret co-existed in each thread of my noose. There was no way of understanding why I accepted past distress, knowing that my future would …
It is not the situations in our lives that demand our minds, but it is our decisions that crave our hearts. Most people do not understand that all of our decisions and actions have a ripple effect. What we say we will not do, what we can not deal with, and what we least expect …
Most mornings, when I don’t have to tend to any one of my three jobs, my alarm isn’t what wakes me. Instead, it’s his “Good morning” text. And just like that, a smile crosses my face, from ear to ear, cheek to cheek. My brown eyes I’m sure light up because I don’t even feel …
She came in, initially cheerful and jolly, her usual buoyant self. But as soon as she sat her food on the counter, slid her feet from her boots, and dropped her bag onto the floor, it were as if she was dropping a load she’d been carrying for too long. At the thump of her …
I would honestly drive myself insane if I attempted to remember the infinite evenings I headed straight to the kitchen and cooked dinner, still in my heels and pearls. Or the mornings I rose before the moon was fully hidden by the early dawn, so I could cram in a brief minutes to myself; my …
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