Friday, April 13, 2018 Such a tough day. I had driven from Alabama back to Texas to be a good wife and surprise J for him birthday (4/10) A month before on March 13, 2018 was my son's father Tevins' birthday. [ we lost him last year ] F*CK CANCER. But on that day....I [...]
“I’m Blackity Black Black Black y’all”
It's Black History Month. I have memories of being a little girl at a predominantly white school and HATING black history month. I know; you are thinking, what black person HATES black history month? THIS ONE! The reason was because our black history months were usually filled with movies like 'Jane Pittman' and 'Gone [...]
Pedophilia Hypocrisy
THE FACTS As of late, you can't turn on the news without seeing headlines of politicians, Hollywood elites and company heads on the sexual assault chopping block. These allegations are not new to the famous but this year the insurmountable strength of what [...]
body I’Mage
I had a baby in March....and I didn't snap back. Nothing snapped. Nothing went back. After giving birth to my first child, I lost weight and ate any and everything I wanted...This time around things were different. |I didn't feel like myself. This summer, while in Houston with some friends from college FAMILY, we went [...]
#MeToo
Before we left home my dad told me to go the the bathroom. But like most kids at that moment 'I didn't have to go'. At that point, we were standing in line for a while. I tapped my dad on the arm and asked him if there was a bathroom near by. He sighed [...]
Self Care is Important
It's been a while... I took an unintentional break. & Life happens... I had to PAUSE and reflect on the reasons why initially I felt compelled to share my life with whomever cares to read this blog. (A LOT.has.happened.since (I'll talk about it in posts to come) BUT---let me just say LIFE has a funny [...]
Action! Busy Mom! Cut! Take #2
This was a frontier I'd never journeyed into before. Mom to two. A newborn and a "four-nager". I was in the kitchen "making a nutritious dinner" (chicken nuggets and apples) and running off of 2 hours of newborn baby sleep. J was at work. My boy runs in and asks if he can cut a [...]
