People around me call me Brave, and consider how, without a job, will I eat. How will I live? I have no fear. I’ve spent 27 years witnessing the seasons change, and paying attention to nature. I know very well how this story goes. Spring brings copulation, creation, and growth. Rain and flowers. Pollen … Continue reading seasons change, and so do we
I was a featured presenter yesterday at Nerd Nite Orlando, introducing the community of nerds to the Orisha pantheon. Whoo, we had a great time! If you have any questions about the Orisha or the Ifa faith, leave a comment below, or tweet me! Thanks to my friend Sara of Choose Love and Go … Continue reading The Orisha Pantheon @ Nerd Nite Orlando
While in graduate school, I was once “in love” with a young man who was set on being a bum. Or perhaps he wasn’t a bum…but an opportunist. I used to operate on this principle that because I had, and others did not, then it was my God-given duty to give unto them, too. So … Continue reading Selfish People
One of the best things my Mama ever did was to let me borrow her hips through this life. And because i’m a woman of virtue, these hips don’t lie. And furthermore, to do right by my mama’s sweet gift, a few years ago I began to adorn myself with waistbeads. I made my … Continue reading Clasp Around My Waist: How to Make and Love Waistbeads
I had to memorize this Robert Frost poem in the seventh grade, and it made a strong impact on 12-year-old me. Something about those two roads diverged in a yellow wood seemed like a sneak peak into this young and unfolding life of mine. And I tell you, it has been a thrill ever since. With … Continue reading The Road Not Taken
I cried a lot that summer. I was broke beyond reason. I had a studio apartment and couldn’t afford the rent – $450/month. I was very very lonely. I moved to Jacksonville with a cooler full of veggies and a suitcase, because I believed that it was better for me to sleep on my play-cousin’s … Continue reading Betsey Johnson Saved My Life
My acting teacher records us one-by-one each week as we practice lines for pretend commercials. When the class is done, we watch each person on screen, and critique the performance. As my playback came up during our first class, I was anxious nervous fearful to see myself, squealing and hiding my face. The teacher pressed … Continue reading God + Sex + Inadequacy
Luvvie Ajayi of Awesomely Luvvie is hands down my favorite (read: Only) blogger to follow for good giggles, hearty hee-haws, and daily dousings of cultural wisdom & global social advocacy. She’s bad yall…the woman is aware, hilarious, and bad. (Congrats on reaching 6-figure traffic in one day…two days in a row! Yes, you inspire me. Can I pledge your sorority? Will … Continue reading Chimamanda, Luvvie, & Feminism
Scandal’s leading lady, character Olivia Pope, was markedly my fashion inspiration during 2013 – my Iyawo year. If I was going to wear nothing but white for 365 consecutive days, i’d do so as my mother has raised me – with class and style. I spent all of 2013 wearing white clothes every day, … Continue reading They Called Me Olivia Pope: 8 Things I Learned During My Year In White
You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is … Continue reading You Are Silk
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