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Stifling-Comfort

Children, Education, Family, Featured, Life, Moments, Motherhood, Nature, Race, Stories, TravelSeptember 2, 201958Views 0Likes 7Comments

Dear White Mom,You are making parenting difficult for me. I am a black mother living in a red state. Mothering black children in a white town. Black. White. Red. Colors are not so pretty, after all. The urge to suppress my anger is making me angry - injustice has a way of boiling one's blood.So far, I've been the one…

Home

Children, Family, Life, Moments, Stories, TravelJuly 19, 201951Views 0Likes 6Comments

Yesterday, one of my little people broke the glass that housed my air plant. I didn’t reprimand or yell ( thank GOD), I simply scooped the plant out from among the shattered glass and placed it on the countertop. This morning, as I searched for something to put it in, I found this glass teapot…

Wanderlust

Family, Life, Marriage, Moments, Nature, Stories, TravelMarch 13, 201955Views 0Likes 3Comments

Wanderlust is my word of the week. It is a noun, and it means a strong, innate desire to rove about or travel. I love to wander. It's actually quite easy because my mind has this magical ability to venture off into the fields of my thoughts, to wade…

Broken Bed

Family, Life, Marriage, Marriage, Mindful Living,, Moments, Stories, TravelMarch 2, 201974Views 0Likes 0Comments

My husband, Ontonio and I were born in the same hospital two days apart. I was born on the 13th of April, and he entered the world, and my heart, on the 15th. In the eyes of the law, we have been married for thirteen years. However, if you were to query my husband about…

“Just Bad Cramps,” My Ass

Chronic Pain, Education, Family, Featured, Life, Marriage, Mindful Living,, Moments, Nature, Stories, TravelFebruary 25, 201971Views 0Likes 1Comment

At age 13, Dr. Nallette told my mother it was "Just bad cramps." I hated her then for minimizing the war inside my pelvis. An emergency doctor told me it could be STD's and prescribed me antibiotics. One doctor said it was in my head when he told…

Driftwood

Family, Life, Marriage, Mindful Living,, Moments, Nature, Stories, TravelFebruary 13, 201985Views 0Likes 1Comment

Two years ago, our family of five packed a suitcase per person with all our favorite things, left ALL our belongings in California, boarded a plane and arrived in Panama City Beach. Today, it's a sunny, wanna-be-spring Saturday afternoon and I am sitting in my backyard surrounded by the arrival of pink chrysanthemums and a…