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…

Meme Culture: easy entertainment & dangerous influence.

Memes… they have become our go to form of entertainment. They’re free, prevalent, creative, varied, and readily available on almost every social media app. With an image and a few lines of text at most an entire message is conveyed. You can see Kermit the frog in a black cloak or with a tea cup,…

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…

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…

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.…

The Longest Winter

Dear Reader, I have not written in a while.  I have 7 or so articles just sitting here unpublished. I can blame the holidays, I can blame my kids and our busy schedules or I can just be flat out honest. Honestly, recent events both personal and in this country have left me speechless…. devoid…