Harriet Tubman: Lessons From the Life of a Mystical Woman

As I was preparing for Women’s History Month, I began researching the amazing women who have made a difference in our world.  There are many, but one reminded me of several important life lessons—Harriet Tubman.  She was a former slave, an abolitionist, a leader of the Underground Railway, and worked as a cook and a […]

If I’m Your “Black” Friend . . .

As a “Black” human living in the U.S., I often wonder if my friends who are not “Black” understand how my life can be different from theirs in certain places in America.   Before we go on, I’d like to make a few clarifications. Not every “Black” person in the U.S. has had the experiences […]

Let No Man Pull You So Low as to Hate Him!

Wow! What a big ask! This can seem wrong at many levels! How could Martin Luther King say this? It might seem right in principle, but the practice is a whole other story. Martin Luther King, Jr. was beaten and jailed multiple times, and both he and his family continuously lived subject to death threats. […]

So, Who Are You Willing to Reproduce With?

A Good Picker Leads to a Good Partner Recently, I was watching a YouTube channel which made me think about the importance of fixing what I refer to in For the Love of my Father (2nd Edition), as a “broken picker.” For women, our picker is the instinct that guides us to a potential right partner. If […]

Pelo Malo: Why Second-Guess the Work of the Creator?

It’s often entertaining to look at the things we humans do when I take myself out of the movie of life for a moment and just observe. Jokingly, I consider what a being from another planet (presuming they exist) would see while watching us. Yet, as most of humanity goes so far, we manage to […]

 The Perfectly Imperfect Concept of America 

We humans are funny. In many instances not laugh-out-loud funny, but just crazy funny. I feel that If there are aliens watching us now, their eyes (if they have them) are popping out at all times. In many ways I am grateful to the founding fathers and mothers (interesting to note things are written as […]