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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…