Published inHello, Love·PinnedMember-onlyThe Three Elements Of MarriageWhat I’ve learned after 7 years of marriage. — We were three months shy of our 7 year wedding anniversary when we sat down in our room, and asked, “Is this it? Has our marriage run its course?” It was an honest moment. A real moment. We felt off; almost numb like we’d hit a plateau. That night, after…Marriage5 min readMarriage5 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe Grass Is Never Greener — My Grass Is PurpleThoughts on Comparison — For centuries,we have been using the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” to express our perception that the lives of others are somehow better than ours. …Envy4 min readEnvy4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyStart Here: A BLM Guide For White PeopleBecause Racism Wasn’t Built In A Day — In the last few months, my husband and I have gotten several text messages from a good friend. She’s a young, white woman with two kids, a husband, and a sleeve of bold, colorful tattoos. We’ll call her Samantha. She’s a pastor in Atlanta and since the day I met…BlackLivesMatter4 min readBlackLivesMatter4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyCan A White Girl Wear That?A conversation about head wraps and appropriation — “Can a white girl wear that?” She asked me after complimenting the style of my Ankara head wrap. She was one of my favorite white girls. I just liked her. Something about her was annoyingly sweet, hilarious, and so lovable. I wanted to be her friend. …Appropriation3 min readAppropriation3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyI Don’t Want To Be A Good PersonI want to be myself. — For as long as I remember, I’ve had this obsession with being a good person. I don’t know where it started. I think back to when I was a child, five or six years old — for the most part, I did the right thing and I wasn’t mean to…Self-awareness3 min readSelf-awareness3 min read
Jun 22Member-onlyWhen Failure and Rejection AlignMaybe the cliche’s are true I’ve heard it said that you have to experience life in order to write about it. As a writer for the last 12 or so years, I have so many pieces in my google drive that I’ve written about. …Rejection3 min readRejection3 min read
May 14Member-only…And These Three Things, I Learned From My Mother.When I was a little girl, I would watch my mother put her knee to the steering wheel and drive as she used tweezers to shape her eyebrows — something she later taught me that saved me $10 every two weeks. She was fascinating to me. The way she did…Motherhood5 min readMotherhood5 min read
Mar 21Member-onlyJanuary Lessons: Commitment, Purpose, & MarriageA few things January taught me. I’ve been learning a lot of lessons lately. Lessons that have been a little hard to process because they’re all happening at once. Lessons I want to learn but am having a hard time deciphering what they actually are. I wrote down an idea…January6 min readJanuary6 min read
Feb 17Member-onlyHey, Big HeadA poem about loving beyond the tension Sometimes it seems so much easier to just go where we’re unknown. To befriend those who know nothing of our past or our present Secrets To be around those we’ve never hurt Who have never wronged us It’s easier to start over And welcome the new stares The new admirers…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
