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Transitions + Forgiveness

“What are you harboring in your heart that you have yet to forgive them for?” I was watching The Shack the other day; that’s when I heard these words. “Who have you not forgiven?” These words stuck, possibly even stung… Yeah they stung. They hurt. So much so that I can still feel the piercing at this moment. “Who have you not forgiven?” The thing is…I pride myself in the ability to forgive and…

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It's Okay To Be The Basic Chick

It’s Okay To Be The Basic Chick

Every so often… year, month, week, who knows… we come up with this term to describe how we feel or look. Fleek, fleeky, fly. And right now, it seems society is throwing around basic and bad. Either you’re a bad chick or you’re a basic chick. Well, let me tell you, for the last 3 months, I’ve been like the most basic of basic chicks. I mean, I got a weave just so I could put my hair in a bun…

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I Tried to Pray Depression Away

THE FIRST TIME It was between the 7th and 8th grade that I had my first bout with depression. This was after my aunt who I was really close to died. It rocked my world. I didn’t understand how someone I who was here one day could be gone the next. How could God do something like that? Why did he take her away? And what is this word we live in anyway. I was 12. I didn’t get it at all. And it…

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Are You Okay?

One week before my birthday, my boyfriend and I broke up. (Sidenote: It’s feels really good to be blogging). Anyhoo, like I said, a week before my birthday, my boyfriend and I broke up. It wasn’t unforeseeable, yet, I didn’t see it coming. Not 100%. We were in that odd spot; that spot where we had previously gone looking at rings, yet hadn’t made any moves toward marriage. The spot where I began…

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Lessons Learned: A New Business Owner's Dirty Laundry

Lessons Learned: A New Business Owner’s Dirty Laundry

It’s okay to be the tortoise, the hare is done with the race entirely too fast. – RP It all started with one question. “If I were to sell scarves, would you buy them?” Enough people said yes that I went ham with my crochet needles and my incessant trips to the yarn aisle at Michael’s. I was in a crafting woman’s heaven. So many colors and textures. And so many people in love with my designs, I’d…

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Free Planner Stickers: Green and Yellow

For personal use only. Not for resale or as part of any print work. Please attribute any digital work back to me.

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Free Planner Stickers: Motivational Stickers (Pink and Black) For personal use. Not for resale or use in other commercial print work. Would love attribution if you use on a website or in any other digital project.

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Social Media Crisis: 11 Things Every Small Business Should Know

If there’s one thing I obsess about more than anything else outside of race relations is marketing. The numbers, the language, what makes people tick, colors, used, what’s new, what’s shiny, what’ll be gone tomorrow and what’s here to stay. It fascinates me because it’s amazing how predictable a person will react based on a varying amount of factors. It’s also fascinating because so many…

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Affirmation: America. We stink.

Affirmation: America. We stink. Look inside. It's time we all start to unlearn some things.

“You are the source of my life. You are the source of my strength. I lift my hands in total praise to You.” – Richard Smallwood America. We stink. I thought of several short essays I could write for this post of affirmation, but this is what resonates right now. I could’ve written an eloquent letter to my black men letting them know just how much I loved them; how I admire them for their poise…

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Affirmation: You are enough

Affirmation: You are enough. Has the real you gotten lost in the layers?

“You are smart…you are enough.” I was recently presented with an opportunity to work alongside a cohort of professionals on one of my organization’s internal projects. We’re in the very early stages of this project, where the foundation is being laid. Key questions are being asked and the work that is fundamental to the identity of this project is being executed. As with any project, the work is…

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Affirmation: Getting Past the B Word

Affirmation: Getting past the B Word. Not getting along with females is deeper than you think.

“I just don’t get along with females.” The first time I heard this statement was when I was in high school…and it’s continued into adulthood. It’s a statement that baffled me for years. I thought, “why would someone have a hard time getting along with other young ladies?” Then it hit me…boys; “boys” was the only rational explanation I could come up with. The idea of not being able to get along…

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Internet courage and all that jazz

The irony behind fact that I’m posting this on the World Wide Web is funny itself. It’s courageous and its on the Internet. The irony pretty much stops there though. If you know me, you know that the things I post below are things I have no problem escaping my thoughtful lips. The fact thaat I’m writing this on an iPad MINI should tell you just how desperately I felt I needed to say something.…

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Compromise?!

Love. What is it really? Is it a feeling? Is it an action? Is it a word to describe a feeling or an action? Or is it something else. The bible says that “…God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him would have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) The Bible also says that love is patient and kind and doesn’t boast in evil and a whole slew of other things. And…

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Chances Are You're Single By Choice

Chances Are You’re Single By Choice

Don’t go rolling your eyes at me talking about “you can say that now, you’re in a relationship.” I’ll say, “touché,” and then ask that you stick with me for just a bit. I’m 35, not married and no kids. Personally, that means that I’ve had my fair share of time being single. In fact, I’ve been in this relationship for only 8 months. The one before that…3 months. And almost a year gap before the…

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Why I Designed the Work/Life Balance Planner

2013 was the year I joined the team; the brand online team, that is. My boss was pregnant, lived in France, and was soon (very soon) to go on maternity leave. Little to my knowledge we were in the middle of a very big project. This was the 4th site redesign I was involved in, and I was confused. “How did I get to this place? How did I get in the middle of another site redesign.” I was in the…

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Decisions: Desires vs. Calling

Note: This was written before the previous post. Decisions are an essential, inevitable element of everyday living. What to wear? What to say? What to eat? Even what to think? But some decisions are bigger than ever. Some are life altering driven by the core of who you are. These include where to go to church? An overall way of living. Your career path and even where to work. Then there are…

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