[Repost] Are You “Ghana” Follow Me
My lovely friend who I affectionately call my little sister leaves for Peace Corps in just a few days. Here is the text from her very first newsletter: How it all started
Love Prevails
Tomorrow is the first day of February and I find myself asking “where has the time gone already?” Just 4 days after the New Year classes resumed :-/. While I am pleased that this means I will be done by
Ushering in 2015
We’re just a couple days away from the New Year and like many, I am reflecting on what 2015 brought … and took away ;-). Here is my short list of things I learned in 2014: LOVE never fails. Of all
Being Black …
http://blackartinamerica.com/ It’s the end of the semester and I so badly want to celebrate, but how can I??? I find myself struggling daily to find hope in what seems to be a season of despair and hopelessness. As I continue to
Bitter Sweet
The last 7 days have brought on a flurry of emotions! Just last week as we were at the gym, I remained glued to the television screen: “Ferguson Grand Jury to Announce Decision”. I vacillated between wanting to stop my
She is in HAWAII!!!
I am always amazed by my circle of friends and as we share in each other's journeys, witnessing our dreams come true
The Museum
There are benefits to blogging as soon as a topic comes to mind, but life doesn't always happen that way so here we are … a day later :-). In my house, it’s a weekend of nonstop birthday celebrations and day #2 was
Change of Seasons
As much of the world turns to look at the Ebola crisis slowly make its way across the globe, we also watch the evolving protests in Ferguson, Missouri and celebrate the developing news of anticipation of the release of the
One Month In
It has been a full month since I started my doctorate program. There are some lessons I have learning for the first time, while others are simply a re-visitations of things I have been made aware of time and time
Thoughts of the Last Time Part II
What I really could have written in my last post was that my first week of school left me completely overwhelmed, uncertain and mentally exhausted. Even as I wrote, I was working earnestly to sort through all of the emotions