You spend so much trying to manage people’s perception of you, that you’re losing yourself. How do you get your life to the point where it’s yours… when do you decide to be the main character in your story? You’re so afraid to fail, you never start. So afraid to fail, you never share your … Continue reading the 2022, you.

It's not often I get a good night's rest. Don't get me wrong I'm tired. But it's the type of tired that sleep can't heal. It's the type of restlessness you experience when there's still work to be done. The type of disappointment that weighs heavily when you know you are capable of, and could … Continue reading 10. “You feel unsettled because you know you are meant for more.”

I read this simple quote. "Life chooses you everyday." everyday we have the opportinity to take new chances the opportunity to make new decisions. And everyday under the sun, moon and stars is another day, life chooses us. How can you not love life back? If not 10x harder. What does reciprocating life's love look … Continue reading 09.

I'm living in that complex space of balancing a job, maintaining relationships, working on myself. I'm truly navigating being in this area of having mandatory responsibilities- and it's a new type of stress. The type where stress isn't a feeling, it's just my existence. The type where I have had my period for the past … Continue reading 08. i get it.

Teaching a tech and society class, has been a learning experience, I think more for me than my students. Being someone who considers themselves right-brained, it was hard for me to grasp that intersectionality of social science and technology. Now I find myself navigating that very space, and also posing the question... are blogs outdated? … Continue reading 07. The death of blogs?

Have you ever met someone happy about split ends? *raises hand Finally At last I was like my white friends We had something in common. I too, had split ends. Now you would catch me placing chunks of my hair between my middle and pointer fingers, flipping my hair upward and checking to see (and … Continue reading 06. Black Girl white(ish) friends: A memoir

Hurt inspires me more than love..I write more. I feel more. I got so used to feeling some degree of pain that it became my reality— and now happiness n love feels out of my comfort zone. Not a bad thing- here we’ve found each other, ourselves… here we’ve found growth.

I think there is something to be said about young girls who don’t look like the other girls, young girls who weren't told they're pretty. Young girls who didn’t fit into Limited too or Hollister. Because what happened to some, not all, of these girls when they grow-up, and having dark skin and thick thighs … Continue reading 03.