A friend recently asked me for hair tips and advice. See, she’s transitioning. From relaxed hair to natural hair. I get these requests often and while I’m glad that yet another Black woman is embracing her God-given natural curls, coils, kinks, and naps, these questions give me pause because invariably the person comes back with […]
Change
“Live life as an adventure, and expect change and endorse it, embrace it.” Barbara Beskind
Sabotage is the Name of the Game: Republicans, Obama & Iran
I started watching House of Cards on Netflix earlier this year and I am already in the middle of season three just released. The ruthless Francis Underwood now as President of the United States has appropriated FEMA disaster funds to fund his pet project AmericaWorks thereby circumventing the law to get his way. In addition, […]
The Sex Lives of African Girls by Taiye Selasi
The African Women’s Book Club was supposed to read Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor but most found it hard to get through, if they had started it at all. So a short story was recommended in its place so that when we met we would have something to talk about while enjoying each others dishes. […]
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don’t you hate it when you know you have read a book or watched a film but cannot remember the story-line? I’m pretty sure I read Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as a teenager. One of those classics in the book section of the dollar store. I know I did not read his The Brother’s Karamazov […]
Happiness
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ghana vs. Côte d'Ivoire AFCON 2015
I haven’t been watching this year’s African Cup of Nations for several reasons. One, I don’t care, at least I told myself I didn’t. Two, I agreed with Morocco on not hosting the tournament because of the Ebola epidemic and thought it should have been cancelled altogether. But you know, bread and circuses. Give the […]
Truth
If you don’t believe it, no matter how many people tell you it is the truth, you have no reason to accept it. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/30/1361224/-Roald-Dahl-s-Heartbreaking-Take-on-Vaccines
Brief Sojourn in Washington D.C
I had a bad week last week. All job-related. I started out the year singing “Let It Go” and failed to heed the wisdom in that simple phrase. By the end of the week, I was ready to escape. So here I am in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., trying my very best not to […]
Thoughts at 36
It is February 2nd. It’s not the day after the Super Bowl. It’s not the day Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow or not. It’s my birthday. I feel like nothing compared to the image of perfection I have manufactured and kept alive in my head. I’m not a mother. I’m not a wife. I’m not […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.