I left the South not thinking I’d miss the place that helped shape who I am
I moved to Colorado and I told everyone that I couldn’t wait to get away. Maybe it’s the politics or the heat. Okay, it’s probably the heat, but after living in the South and seeing what else the country had to offer, there was a little voice in the back of my head that kept telling me it was time to pack up and leave.
My fiancèe found a job that she wanted and we did just that. We left and thought we wouldn’t look back.
I didn’t think that I’d get homesick, but I did, and it snuck up…
We may think we’re ready to go back into the world, but are we?
I sometimes think to myself that I can’t wait until we can get back to a place where going to a restaurant doesn’t feel like a life or death situation. When you’re stuck inside, you have so much more time to fantasize about what life will be like when we get the chance to safely go to concerts, Top Golf, and travel again without being stuck wearing masks.
It’s been a year since the Covid-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans into lockdown. At first it felt like no big deal. We believed we would easily find a solution that would…
Every day, the hate that we give eats at the fabric of this country and any chance of redemption.
Another politician, inept of a backbone and any unique thoughts or ideals said, “Yes, there is an enemy within. And that enemy is a poisonous rot of socialist policies and America last sell outs who are pompous hypocrites that believe they are untouchable elites.”
This sentiment, yelled from the rafters by Marjorie Taylor Greene, the overtly loud congresswoman from Georgia, sees herself as the voice of the voiceless and the effortless portrayal of victimhood from her, someone whose white privilege reeks of virtue signaling, nationalism, and manipulation, comes from a continuing line of outspoken and usually wrong legislators who think…
Pointing out racial discrepancies is how we find more ways to improve diversity
I was watching as poll numbers began to show Reverend Raphael Warnock, now Senator-elect in the state of Georgia, rise to a commanding lead over Kelly Loeffler, his opponent and also incumbent.
Then the news started rolling in. Warnock was projected to win a seat in the Senate and the thing that stuck with me most is watching people across different news mediums announce that he would be the first, yes, the first Black Senator in the state of Georgia…ever.
I’m used to hearing first when it comes to Black people doing anything, especially when it involves a position of…
The biggest question we ask ourselves is if we are good enough and ready to be a parent
Any way you slice it, the thought of parenthood comes with a lot of anxiety. Sure, the miracle of life seems like a worthy trade off, but entering that world comes with so many what ifs. Even the conversations you have about it are nerve racking when they transition from the immature fantasies that used to seem lightyears away to the real and open discussions about it you have with your partner.
People always say that you’re never ready to bring a child into the equation and to just do it. I hear that a lot. …
There is so much opportunity for us to be a part of something that goes beyond what we’ve settled for
For most of us, if we find ourselves in a bad relationship, we leave and it could be for a multitude of reasons. Maybe our partner doesn’t satisfy us anymore or maybe the mystery and romance has died. Maybe we just aren’t being treated fairly and it’s time to go because we know we deserve better.
For those of us who stay, maybe it’s loyalty, albeit misguided, and we just can’t pull ourselves to leave because the memory of the good times still remain and the role that our partner played in our lives wasn’t always bad or unbearable. …
Halloween meant one thing and one thing only — getting the Christmas decorations down from the attic and prepping for Thanksgiving plans
As a child, I had a lot of things working against me when it came to Halloween. I can’t speak for other families, but as for mine, there wasn’t a chance in hell (see what I did there) that I was ever going to step foot on a strange doorstep to ask for some candy.
I didn’t even read my first Harry Potter book until I went to college.
I know. Gasp.
When you grow up in the South, for the most part, anything that had to do with the supernatural was witchcraft or demonic. It wasn’t until I started…
We’re not in a place where we want to see whether or not the COVID-19 vaccine works at our expense
My spidey-senses are tingling again.
A vaccine for COVID-19 that hasn’t even finished trials yet is being fast tracked to be made available by the election. What an interesting time frame.
I am by no means an anti-vaxxer, but if you’ve been keeping track, the United States has a lot to gain by pushing out a vaccine, literally, and that just doesn’t sit right with me.
I’m apprehensive at best and I don’t have to be Miss Cleo to know that there are plenty of others in my community that feel the same way. There were already reports earlier this…
The police have a critical and necessary job, but they are not messiahs
As a child, being the son of a police officer was the coolest.
My father was my literal hero; he could do no wrong in my eyes. His cop car excited me, and I got a thrill every time I could check out his guns and gadgets. I wanted to believe that every person who wore the same uniform worked in and served their community fairly, just like him.
There wasn’t a place I could visit in my small Alabama town where my dad didn’t know multitudes of people. …
The year 2020 has been a doozy and this generation has never seen anything like it before. For a moment, it felt like the world actually stopped for a second and we were just moving in slow motion.
That may be true, but in the middle of all the hardship, 2020 has also been full of lessons. From the ashes, we’ve seen leaders rise up, we’ve seen people become advocates, we’ve seen people support causes they wouldn’t have been privy to otherwise, and people are changing and educating themselves to issues they traditionally overlooked.
I believe it’s because we are…
