Since I was twenty-two, fresh out of college, I’ve worked in the field of social media. I was taught in the most mediocre fashion to create content. My career endeavors took me into the world of digital marketing companies and nonprofits while I continued to learn and...
“The ego is telling you things you need to do to be better, to improve yourself. When in reality, it’s about what you need to let go of. You are not your ego.” After releasing my first novel, In Body I Trust, the most vulnerable piece of work I have ever written or...
Sundays are usually the days since I’ve moved to Tampa to go over to my mom’s house and give her a day of emotional rest. See, my amazing, incredible, strong, powerful, faithful mother is also a wife to a man who was diagnosed with dementia a few years ago. Being a...
Wowza… I’m 31. Would you look at that? I look at myself in the mirror and see wrinkles outlining the corners of my eyes and the curvature of my cheeks. I see gray hairs sprouting through my roots and my skin becomes more like my mother’s with every passing day. On...
What is it about failure that causes us to feel so debilitated? The concept of not meeting the expectations we ultimately set for ourselves based on society’s standards. The “ladder” which has been defined by the white man since our constitution and overall...
