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Value the Quiet Ones
I remember getting feedback from a colleague once that I was too quiet in a meeting. I was new the team and the dynamics were even newer to me. I pride myself on listening first when I enter new setting because I’ve rushed to formulate opinions in the past and it frustrated my learning. This…
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28 years, 28 lessons
Four years ago today, I woke up with my face smushed inside my elbow on my mother’s light oak kitchen table in Queens wondering if the previous ten hours had been a dream. My head hurt and old tears stained my face. There was a knock at the door. I wiped the residues of my hour of sleep…
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An Open Letter to My Beautiful Brown Son for Mother's Day
Hey there folks! I am so pleased to share an open letter I wrote to my son is in the Huffington Post. It was such a beautiful Mother’s Day gift to see the letter in print! I poured my heart and soul into these words and fully intend to share it with all my boys when they…
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I am loved! Positive Affirmations For Our Children
Guess what?! My latest novel, I am loved! Positive Affirmations For Our Children is available today, January 10, 2017 for pre-order on Amazon Kindle! It features a collection of positive affirmations designed to be read aloud with your favorite tiny human. This book is personal for me. It is a collection of things I tell…
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Ripping Off The Band-Aid
“All art is kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” – James Baldwin Late last year, I suffered a miscarriage. I know that’s a tough way to start a blog. Okay, it’s depressing as…
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Losing Prince
I fell in love with him all at once. Devoured him. Gobbled him up. Like you do a meal you’ve been waiting for all day from that one restaurant you never get tired of. I’d heard him before that day. I’d listened outside my brothers’ rooms as a child. Back then, he was the guy…
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From The Archive: A Dreamer's Pledge
Say it with me…. A Dreamer’s Pledge by Faye McCray © Faye McCray, 2014 I will fight to protect my dreams. I will keep getting back up. I will believe in myself when no one else does. I will keep getting back up. I will swallow criticism to the extent it makes me better. I…
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Guess where I am?
I am now a regular contributor over at Black Girl Nerds! I am starting off talking about all things The Walking Dead! Check out my latest now HERE! Love and Light, Faye
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Seeking a Friend for The End of The World
Facebooking is a spectator sport. We post to elicit laughter, empathy, sympathy and sometimes even envy. It’s the equivalent of taking a microphone into a crowd of semi-familiar faces and saying, “Hey! Look at me! Look at my life! It matters. I matter.” On Facebook, we aren’t just someone’s obscure memory. In my case, the…
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Be back soon!
These hands have been working furiously to bring you a load of content for 2016! Stay tuned here and on my Facebook and Twitter pages for updates. In the meantime, have a wonderful holiday season! See you in the new year :-). Love and Light, Faye
Faye McCray 