I’ve fallen in love with mobility. It’s so gratifying to exercise my agency as an individual. As a human who has breath in her body with full autonomy in deciding how to use it. In June of 2020, I moved from Oakland to Atlanta, after the COVID-19 pandemic put my planned relocation to London on…
Love is so scary…. at times. Old wounds tell me that pain is more familiar. They tell me that complexity is easier to navigate. That mistrust is more predictable than sweet + steady love.
Dear Mom, I recognize those eyes. They hold so much truth. No matter the smile we muster, no matter the chuckle we give… those eyes… they tell our stories. They tell more than our lips choose to utter. They’ve seen more of people’s true identities than we ever cared to know. Those eyes. I recognize…
Like many people who have been commuting from their bedrooms to their couches for the majority of 2020 + vacationing at their rooftop pool areas (if they even have one), I’d been really itching for a change of scenery. Quitting my corporate job at the beginning of October gave me a new-found sense of flexibility….
I read an article today that noted that the Philly City Council has formally apologized for the deadly 1985 bombing of the Black Liberation group called MOVE. Police used war weapons on people who wanted freedom. Five years before I was born. We deserve so many apologies. Yet, we spend our days, careers and lives…
Loving you is as easy as breathing.You can do no wrong. Everything you are is perfect. I love you in the most tender of ways.In a way that effortlessly frees me.The thought of you lifts me.No lift ever feels the same as the one before it, but it doesn’t scare me because I know that…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in 13 globally suffers from anxiety. Anxiety disorders may develop from a set of risk factors such as life events, genetics, brain chemistry and personality. Common symptoms of anxiety disorders are: recurring nightmares, flashbacks or emotional numbing related to a traumatic event that occurred several months or…
If there is one thing I’m good at, it’s running. Threaten my safety or my ability to stand and I’m out. I’m gone. No matter how much it shreds me on the inside. No matter how many years, thereafter, I will invest picking up hobbies and projects to stuff the holes that your absence has…
You deserve to be happy. You deserve to be whole. These days, it can be tough to find refuge and healing with so few outlets and places to turn to. I created my own refuge at home. As a result, there’s honestly no place on earth like home for me. 🙂 I’m sharing my tips…
The year 2020 has been quite a train wreck for everyone. As I was partying in Ghana during the end-of-year countdown… with cool sand under my toes…. raising a cold tropical cocktail in the air and panning the beach party with my iPhone for my Instagram story… the biggest smile on my face… friends laughing…
