I did it. I barely made the cut but I voted today. However, it wasn’t an easy ordeal. I moved earlier this year, which placed me in a different county. I submitted my new voter registration card and assumed I was set for early voting. Wrong. I was listed in Suspense status, which meant there […]
It’s amazing to me how people will literally hold on to grudges for years just to prove a point. At times, I have been “people”. I’m still a work in progress. Last week I ran across an interview with Dawn Robinson, one of the founding members of En Vogue. Chances are, if you’re under 30, […]
“What happened to Mike?” This is the most popular question from readers after finishing the Fortune Cookie novel series. I purposely wrote his character to be elusive and allow people to draw their own conclusions. Little did I know how interested people would be in his final fate. I’m a firm believer that everything happens […]
I don’t think anyone could have predicted we’d be where we are now in 2020. Aside from a few inevitable road bumps along the way, I thought everything would be bigger, bolder, and more profitable. Sometimes the answers to our most fervent prayers come in the most unusual packages. Today, I finished up my new […]
Oh, joy. It’s that time of year again. New year’s resolutions will begin flooding my timeline. All the grandiose 2020 goals are surefire this year because…well, it’s 2020. At least that’s what everyone will have you think. If you’ve followed my blog for a long time, you know I’m not a huge fan of new […]
The photo above was taken about 5 years ago. I wasn’t in my 30s yet. Oh, I was also 20 lbs smaller than I am now. I laugh every time I see it, because my trainer at the time used to always say, “get your stomach out your shirt!” On this particular day, I reached […]
2019 has been a creative whirlwind to say the least. Coming out of 2018, one of the darkest years of my entire life, I dug deep into my writing for therapy. Those writing sessions eventually birthed my latest and most personal poetry book to date, Eleven: Things We Never Said. Just before then, I had […]
I recently wrapped up season 2 of the Spike Lee produced Netflix series, She’s Gotta Have It. The show is loosely based on his 1986 film of the same name. Nola Darling is a struggling artist who simultaneously dates several people in the midst of finding herself. Each of her lovers cater to a different […]
Last week I disclosed my surprising diagnosis that was based on some excruciating pain in my right toe. Yep, you guessed it (or maybe you didn’t). Gout! Please say it ain’t so. I thought I had to be well into my 50s, eat pork chops and steaks before I could ever see this happening to […]
I’ll never forget it. It was the night of April Fool’s. I wish the pain I felt that day was a joke, but it was all real. I remember laying in bed around 10:00 pm and feeling this burning sensation on the side of my right big toe. As tired as I was, sleep was […]