Woah.  This week has been an emotional doozy.   While I enjoy being in my own space and spending time by myself (I’ve been told I’m an extrovert who moonlights as an introvert), it was hard being by myself as the impact of COVID-19 came closer to home than I imagined.  Every industry is impacted in one way or another and…

Dear Future Me, Hey Sis, heeeeyyyy! (I said that with a body roll.) It’s March 2020 and it feels like it should be December already because the year has been off to a tough start for most of the world. We’re currently in lockdown mode in the Bay Area. Gap Inc. has closed all of its stores along with most…

Being a woman is hard. There are so many sides to our lives and so many layers to our stories. From the mother of three to the single woman; to the career professional to the stay at home mom; to the entrepreneur to the activist- and to all the overlapping in between. They are all paving the way for the…

Society would have you believe that there are only two types of women in this world: the good girl and the bad girl. We see it portrayed time and time again in movies, books and other forms of entertainment. The good girl is the virgin wearing white who dresses modestly and has a sheepish, almost childlike demeanor while the bad…

I’ve been abstinent for a little over five years. I remember when I first started telling people that I decided not to have sex before marriage. I received quite the range of reactions: First, there was complete shock: “Why would you ever do that?” and “Yooo, that’s crazy!” Next, there was doubt and disbelief: “Girl, you’re not going to be…

I grew up in an ol’ school Black church. There were church mothers with peppermints in their purses, men with shiny shoes and cufflinks, and morning services that lasted way too long. Outside of church, women wore the obligatory blue jean skirt down to their ankles and paired it with simple, flat white tennis shoes and a basic t-shirt. These…