August (a poem)

August
Feels like fish frying at noon
All the time
Swooning under a golden orb
beautiful

relentless
power and might
outside our reach
but we feel it’s touch

I Never Needed Barbie

The epitome of beauty and grace, she stood in pink perfection, just beyond my grazing fingers. Her smile was welcoming and confident and her blue eyes and the dusting of rose on her cheeks seemed to further distance her from my reach.

Building Emotional Trust

Since discovering the lack of emotional trust, I’ve been trying to make up for it. It’s been more than a year since I began and I’ve been creating an emotional bonding and building trust, but trust takes time.

Postpartum Depression

Postpartum Depression This post on postpartum depression continues the discussion on emotional support where I left off talking about the emotional support kids need. If you haven’t, I encourage you to read the prior posts. …

Change Your Emotions, Change Your Life

Change isn’t easy. In fact it can be downright hard. We’re dealing with a history of living with whatever we want to change. There is physical and neurological programming associated with the behavior we want to change. But good change is worth it.

This Black History Month

This Black History Month I want more for us, all of us. To heal, move forward, and create more than a past, but a future where our pain and trauma are understood but don’t define us.