A Not So Good Day…

Have you ever just had a bad day? Or a bad week?  To the point where you would rather just curl up in a ball and cry the entire day away? I woke up in a pretty bad mood this morning.  I didn’t sleep very well, which started with me going to sleep very late…

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The Cross Between Needing Clothes and Losing Weight

Slowly (very slowly), but surely, the weight is coming off. Soon I’ll be under ……a certain number (don’t want to say) and I’m feeling pretty good about it. I wouldn’t say the weight is falling off in big chunks, but I can feel and see small differences. My current dilemma is clothes. Summer time has…

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Relationships don’t change, people do

Originally posted on You Forgot Your Common Sense:
You hear a lot of people (primarily women) say “what you did to get it, you have to do to keep it”. So first of all, until you’ve said “I do” -you’re single, & until that day happens you are dating a representative! I say that because…

On Interior Spaces: A Place To Write

Originally posted on Properly Improper:
Remember when I said I work more productively when I plan, well I also work better when I have a quiet, clean, efficient space to create, pay bills, or think. I am re-designing my home and one of the rooms that need an update is my office space. Although, I…

Home

It’s not the street I usually go down, but for some reason, that day I turned down a different road.  Today of all days, this road caught my attention, more than it had in the past.  It was more appealing, more attractive, and more noticeable and I couldn’t take my focus off of it.  I…

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Black Cops: Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem?

Originally posted on Black America Web:
Could the strained relationships between police and the Black community improve if there were more African- American cops patrolling predominantly Black neighborhoods? Civil rights activists have been calling for more Black police officers after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the death of Freddie Gray Jr.,…

#WhitWritesHerNovel: Hiatus and the Thought of a Writing Group

I am kind of upset that I haven’t been able to give my novel the attention it deserves in the last 2 months or so.  It has been a pretty busy couple of months, from working, to being out of town or doing something since the end of April. Needless to say, the writing has taken a…

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Confessions of a Loc’d Goddess: Eco Styler Gel Review

I recently did a quick retwist on my locs, because these edges were looking a hot mess.  I recently stopped using my Jamaican Mango and Lime gel, due to some reviews I have seen, so I wanted to try something different on my hair. While I was natural, my go to gel was Eco Styler Gel…

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