And so the locs

I'm not original. I mean I am an original but I do things that are trendy. Everybody and their 2nd cousin has started a loc journey. And gotdamnit they should!!! My God, the freedom. The freedom for a Black American person to wear their hair as it grows out of their head is monumental to …

Create space

Life is short. Create space for YOU. You deserve it.

And it’s more of the same

And moreso will I only be seen through my words and it be the only escape from the invisibility I have always felt deep in my heart as a Black American woman.

A change has come…

Life ebbs and flows. A change soon comes. #MommyFab

The 10 year challenge.

I did a 10 year challenge in 2021 after I did my big chop. I struggle. So many beautiful parts of me are in my past. Yet, so many broken, sad, and hurt parts of me are in my past and linger in the present. I seem to languish with one leg in the NOW, …

Adulthood is just coping with childhood trauma as best as you can

Disclaimer: I feel embolden to remind anyone reading this blog that this is a blog that examine life from the Black American (who are descendants of Chattel slavery) experience. I don't apologize for it. That's my voice. In this space, that voice will always be first and respected. Read on... I went home for the …

Life comes at you fast….

I'm drinking my second glass of Malbec wondering where I went wrong. I'm also happily listening to some dope lo-fi music that I want to Shazam. ...but I won't because I am in my feelings and typing this on my Nord N10. Lol. So I am just here at the bar, with a water chaser …

Power of the Palate … powered by Maker’s Mark

A wee dram, a cocktail, a mocktail... Power of the Palate, powered by Maker's Mark. Oooh, let's have a drink, shall we!!!! #MommyFab

Things

Sometimes my heart breaks for humanity.

Black Women are HUMAN. Bar None.

Black women are human. We are allowed to make mistakes. We are deserving of Grace. You should not have to be perfect or the supremacist idea of "respectable" to deserve Grace and Mercy.