I keep absorbing blows from people who “mean well” because I’d still rather hurt myself than see them in pain. Here’s a little background. I gained a whole third family- grandparents, aunts and uncles- when my little brother was born. It was 1994, about four years since my parents split…

Deal with it, or don’t; I’m giving myself permission to feel everything. I have started this post about six times. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything at all, here. Mostly, because I never know who I’m reaching and I hate speaking into the Void. …

Our Unwillingness To Act Costs Children Their Future December 14, 2012 left me truly horrified. A gunman had just massacred twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, before turning the gun on himself. I was working retail at the time and a friend of…

Unapologetically Occupying White Dominated Spaces as a Solo Black Woman I’ve decided that- at age thirty-one, I am going to show up in spaces that don’t traditionally include us (women of color)and just stand there. If I offend you by just existing in the same space as you then tough…

We Are Running Out Of Time. Now As I write this, New Orleans is flooding- again. Tropical Storm Barry is morphing into Hurricane Barry and, if history repeats itself, this storm will cut a decisive path of destruction through New Orleans- and it hasn’t even made landfall yet. …

Myself in two spaces. I am an uneducated, mentally ill, thirty-one year old black woman with opinions on everything. …