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 2

In the first part of series, Love’s role in relationships was discussed. I do believe it’s an integral part but it’s not ALL. In this part I’d like to discuss Love’s role in work. Because believe it or not, it does play a part. Be it positive or negative, our motivation for doing things is…

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…

My Eyes

Both of my children ended up with my eyes, dark brown and expressive. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul and for me that is the truth. My eyes will give me away every single time. They can hide nothing, much to my chagrin! I like them though, they are one of…

Power, Responsibility, & Influence : An Artist’s Arsenal

These three words are at times thrown flippantly about. People covet them. People fake them. People abuse them. However, when people truly find out what they mean; the full weight of the burden they can be comes crashing down on them…. and then, ladies and gentlemen, does the real test begin. What you do after…

Wonder Woman: Love’s Champion

As one of my personal favorite superheroes and a part of the DC trinity, Wonder Woman has always shined bright as a beacon of hope and inspiration for me. An Amazon princess who literally sacrifices everything she has ever known to be an ambassador of hope and love and to defend the defenseless in the…

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…

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…