• Eight Years Without Prince💜💜💜

    On this day eight years ago, the world lost one of the greatest musicians of all time, Prince. His music was the soundtrack of my childhood, my teenage years, young adulthood years, and my grown ass woman life, and the world has been a dull, gray mess without his presence. He was a man who…


  • A Book!!!

    I just published an ebook and would love some support. Please support my book and the link is below. The Change of Life As Told By A Middle-Age Around the Way Girl https://a.co/d/8dbo3kB


  • Love

    Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you. A positive thing a family member has done for me was to love me unconditionally, and it’s more than just one family member, but several. My matriarchs from my mother’s side of the family loved and nurtured me, and although they are no longer…


  • Fighting for My Life

    The first three months of 2024 have been interesting to say the least. I resigned from a government position back in November due to not being able to fulfill the requirements of the job because I have permanent short term memory loss due to the medication I take for epilepsy. But I found another job…


  • The Word “No”

    How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? I say no quite often these days to things that would interfere with my goals because I’m tired as hell. Tired because of the drugs I take for my medical condition, tired mentally because of the grief I’ve been going through…


  • Single and Mingling

    What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. The one question I hate to be asked is why am I single? One because it’s invasive as hell and lastly, it’s no one’s business. We live in a culture in which women are considered weird if they don’t have a man attached to the…


  • Welfare Queen

    How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? How has a failure, or apparent failure, set me up for later success? Having two children by the age of 21. According to statistics, I wasn’t supposed to be shit and my children weren’t supposed to be shit but I proved them…


  • Accountability

    If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? If I could ban the word ‘accountability,’ I would dance ass buck naked on the Gold Coast here in Chicago. I’ve seen so many people on the internet use this word without knowing what the fuck they are talking…


  • The Lost Ones

    I’m back home after attending a balloon release for a real cool gentleman I grew up with and for whatever reason, I decided to take the Red Line train to the park it was being held, and my god. It was filled with so many young Black adults strung out on drugs. One young man…


  • Relationships and Black Folks

    What bores you? What bores me? These never ending conversations on the Black social media about relationships, celebrities, submission, high value men and women, who eats first, the man or the children, and all types of foolishness. The Black community is teetering on the edge of a cliff and these are the conversations that take…