21-day #FabGratitude Challenge… Sign up!!

​I started a gratitude challenge in 2014. It honestly changed my perspective on my life. I had just come through a gut wrenching divorce, 2 nervous breakdowns, a relationship from hell and trying to manage to keep a job and be a good mother on top of all of that.  Honestly, shhhhhhh looked kinda dismal.  …

We are uncomfortable and unsatisfied … Period.

...in order to survive we have to make appropriations to be uncomfortable and unsatisfied (constantly) in our own bed.

Reclaiming our humanity and rejecting oppression

We must reject oppression and restore our own humanity.

Pretty pictures make the world go ’round…

I took a break from the world and I took some pretty pictures with Zinn Photography.

(Sharing a public post…) What it’s like to be black in Naperville, America

​Original post can be found here:  https://www.facebook.com/brian.crooks/posts/10103901923530909 Excerpt from post: One summer when I was back from college, I had an argument with a good friend of mine. When I say "good friend," I mean that this is a guy I knew since middle school. Our dads used to work together. I can't count how …

I need my brain cells for other “grandiose and amazing” things.

I need my brain cells for other "grandiose and amazing" things.  -@EfabulousHB 

#‎23ways‬ you could be killed if you are black in America

MIC ORIGINAL: 23 voices — Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Chris Rock, Rihanna, Taraji P. Henson, Pharrell Williams and so many others — reveal a shocking truth: These are the ‪#‎23ways‬ you could be killed if you are black in America. The time for change is now. https://www.facebook.com/MicMedia/videos/1177346632288125/

Chareka Marchelle-Esq – Publicly posted

Chareka Marchelle-Esq - Publicly posted 18 hrs ago · I am willing to provide pro bono services to anyone arrested, in the Houston area, for their activism. Don't let fear of an arrest stop you from standing up. Please share this with friends and family. ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ ‪#‎MyFaithRequiresSocialAction‬ ‪#‎MovingInMyPurpose‬ http://ow.ly/bWRV3028mv5

(Sharing the article…) To The Tired Single Mama, Here’s What Your Child Sees

A really good friend, who cares about me, sent this article to my attention. My eyes welled up and started leaking because right now in my life... This is me. There is one catastrophe after another and I am worn down to a place that has me feeling really, really low.  Reading this article helped …

Do NOT come for me…

Do NOT come for me. EVER.