Posted: August 25, 2021
“Your self-worth is determined by you.You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” ~ Beyonce Knowles I have come to terms with a truth about myself that I am not proud of, nor am I comfortable saying it out loud, never mind sharing it with strangers. Regardless of my trepidation, I
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Posted: August 3, 2021
“You’re my downfall, you’re my muse,my worst distraction, my rhythm and blues.” ~ John Legend I’ve gotten myself into a predicament and I’m full of angst and regret over it. To some it may not seem like a big deal. You might even tell me to get over myself already, but for me it’s an
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Posted: July 10, 2021
“Don’t wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want … create your own constellation.” ~ Pharrell Williams I believe in astrology, which is not to be confused with astronomy. Astrology is considered a “pseudoscience that claims to divine information about terrestrial events and human affairs by studying the movements
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Posted: June 23, 2021
“Healing begins where the wound was made.” ~ Alice Walker I have Daddy issues. There. I said it. I’m embracing how this truth has been impacting my life adversely on many different levels. Before sitting down to etch this fact in stone, I actually had to look up exactly what it meant to have
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Posted: April 27, 2021
“If your dream ain’t bigger than you, there’s a problem with your dream.” ~ Deion Sanders I’ve always been a dreamer … well so I thought. I realize now that while I tend to have many dreams, I haven’t been dreaming in color. In the grand scheme of things, my dreams have been small, short-sighted,
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Posted: April 18, 2021
“If you are unhappy with anything – whatever is bringing you down – get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity; your true self comes out.” ~ Tina Turner I sit here in my recliner, locked in my bedroom after working eight and a half
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Posted: April 2, 2021
“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” ~ Booker T. Washington Today is March 19, 2021. It would have been my mother Lena Bell’s 78th birthday had she not died suddenly of respiratory failure while in rehab at a nursing home for
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Posted: March 22, 2021
“You can’t build anything on a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.” ~ Hill Harper Can men and women truly just be friends? I’m not talking about friends with benefits. I’m not talking about side pieces. I’m not talking about one friend hiding feelings for the other and faking the friendship. I’m talking about true
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Posted: March 11, 2021
“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg I was recently asked, “What is a blog,” and you know what? Although I’m a blogger, I did not have a clue how to answer the question off the top of my head. By definition, a blog is “a regularly updated
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Posted: February 21, 2021
“It’s no disgrace to be Black, but it’s often inconvenient.”
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