Dark Sharp Girls 1: Discreet Malice

Celebrated author, Gillian Flynn, has given me some of the greatest reads and subsequently some of the greatest watches of my life. As an avid reader, that is saying A LOT….. David Fincher said something to the effect of “she’s that 13yo girl watching a movie with a bucket of popcorn. She writes like an audience…

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Part 1

Love is the biggest reason of all. It’s also the biggest cliché of all… those three words can be the purest form of expression or the biggest excuse in the world. Love can blind us or set us free, it can shackle us to our past or push us into a new life. But in…

An Amazonian Dress Code?

Justice League was released two weeks ago. One of the first complaints I saw about it was the costumes of the Amazons. This bugged me to no end. The complaint was that they were less covered in JL vs Wonder Woman. The main difference here? a male vision vs a female vision. Now these people…

Happy Birthday Gabriel!

I remember the day I took this picture. I had just begun to find our rhythm…. You were just over a month old. We’d laid in bed that morning cooing and I was staring at you thinking how much you had grown in the past month. Chiding myself for not taking many pictures, I readied…

The Value of a Teapot

  One of my earliest and sweetest associations of tea is my mother making us a cup to relax us and help us sleep. Most often it would be chamomile with a little milk and sugar. Once, when my brother was young, he caught a bad stomach virus. He was too young to take the…

Surrender To The Music

Everyone can dance. Not everyone can dance well, mind you, but everyone can dance! 😉 My earliest memory of dancing is twirling in my parent’s kitchen. Whether by myself or swept in my dad’s arms, or holding on tight to mama’s hands; I remember the joy of the dance. My big sister is a crazy…

Love Thyself

“Do you love and accept yourself?” This is a question I have asked myself many times over the past five or six months. At first, I was offended even at myself! I was shocked almost that I would let that thought past my guard. OF COURSE I LOVE MYSELF! We’re inundated with so much “you’re…

Half-Breed

“We’re mutts!”, My sister would joke. It was a longstanding joke in my household. I’ve mentioned before that I am racially mixed and that it has messed with people’s acceptance of me. Oftentimes, people like to place you inside a box with a label. We were taught to resist it. “A simple answer is dishonest.…

A Life of Indulgences or a Character of Commitment?

Who doesn’t love a piece of chocolate cake? A cheese burger? A cold margarita on a hot day? Whether your tastes run to the sweet or savory side, everyone likes to indulge! When the indulgences become regular occurrences they cease to be indulgences altogether! I have mentioned before I was trying to lose weight. I…

Apple Cider Vinegar: A Tonic for All That Ails Ya!

I LOVE ACV!! I can’t say it enough. I feel like this could be in so many categories, that as I write this I still haven’t decided on where to place it! It could easily be in Cleaning, Health & Beauty, Money Savers, Listen to Mama, Homeopathic remedy, Weight Loss or Product Review, because I personally swear by Braggs.…