Happy Singleness Awareness Day! This one is for the singles out there. The ones who might be down on Valentine’s Day. This day can be a little difficult for all the singles that are ready to mingle. There’s a whole 24 hours to remind you that you are missing out. But we’re not missing out and for believers, we never will. My younger sisters are both happily married to some pretty awesome guys. Family friends and relatives often turn to me, the older sibling, saying, “Well Eshe is married. Nia is married. Where is your husband?” I sarcastically reply saying,…
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Shameful moment…I have a cycle when it comes to the tidiness of my room. It starts off clean. Everything has its place. The furniture is dusted. The laundry is done and the clothes are folded. The carpet is vacuumed and it smells like fresh cotton, one of my favorite candles. I lay on the bed in my newly cleaned room, refreshed by the peace and calmness that it brings, relaxed after all the cleaning. I keep telling myself that this time is going to be different. This time I am going to come home and hang up my clothes after…
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When I was about 13 years old, I fell in love. Ya know, the deep kind of love. Call each other all day kind of love. Puppy names to make you puke kind of love. Draw hearts on your binder with his name inside kind of love. And then…yep…I woke up. For as long as I can remember, I have been a helpless romantic. I love romantic movies like The Holiday, The Notebook or Love & Basketball. The relationships don’t seem to make sense. Someone is too selfish. Someone doesn’t try like the other. Someone is not communicating their feelings of hurt…
