Not sure where I’m going with this, but I just had this strange desire to blog about my butt.

Okay, so there’s this stereotype out there that black women have big butts. We’re supposed to have these big badonkadonks and wear clothes that hug our badonkadonks in the right places.

Well, [...] Continue Reading…

I blogged about being in love with life today. Cause that’s true.

But there’s more love going on right now.  Like, boy love. And that’s been glorious.  Not because it’s boy love, but because of who the boy is.

Ya, the anxiety is causing me to experience heart palpitations.  Sometimes thinking [...] Continue Reading…

…with life.

I was reading old blog posts (which is probably my favorite thing about blogging), and I couldn’t stop falling in love over and over again with my life. I started to get butterflies thinking about the uniqueness of my journey. Recalling past experiences and challenges made me feel [...] Continue Reading…

I wish I were more turtle-like — vulnerably slow, yet quick to savor.  Because I can be such a fucking rabbit sometimes.

Savoring life is not a strength of mine. Far from it, actually.  I’m always on the go.  I’m always looking to the next thing or focused on the next [...] Continue Reading…

I had a moment today.

It was a great feeling, actually.

I was listening to some Nickel Creek. Man, I used to love Nickel Creek in college.  They were such a talented group that played such beautiful music. They came to Messiah twice while I was there and I saw them [...] Continue Reading…

I miss blogging.

I miss announcing super personal things on the Interwebs, like it’s a completely normal thing to do. I miss waking up from a deep sleep to jot down some ingenious blog idea that happened to come to me in the middle of the night. I miss commenting on other blogs.  [...] Continue Reading…

Happy Blog Swap Day! Today Liz is taking over my blog and writing about her trip to Scotland.  I took over hers and wrote about my love of summer lovin’.  Enjoy!

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Hi everyone! I’m Liz from Landscapes of ME. Since the theme of this blog swap is summer, I wanted [...] Continue Reading…

I suck at balance.

I’m fully aware of the necessity of balance, but I’m awful at actually applying it to my own life.  I really am.

I recently blogged about relying on alcohol, male attention, and identities to numb myself from dealing with the hard shit in my life…the shit that’s [...] Continue Reading…

I read this article on Tuesday and I’ve been kinda sad ever since.  The gist is that black women are the most unmarried group in America.  In fact, 70% of black women are unmarried and apparently this statistic holds true across socioeconomic statuses.  The author argues that black women [...] Continue Reading…

I often find myself bouncing from identity to identity. For four years I was “Mark’s girlfriend.” I liked that one, kinda, but it was exhausting. And I just knew I was gonna marry that man and my identity would change to “Mark’s wife.”  Then one day I thought about [...] Continue Reading…