Love

Oh, How I Wish 30 Could Last Forever

July 24, 2012

I am finally in my 31styear and I am nothing but a bag of mixed emotions: happy that I am here another year to fulfill my purpose on earth, but doubtful about the prospects of becoming a wife and mother. Life just got REAL. When my 30th birthday popped up last year, I was excited, [...]

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All Advice Isn’t Good Advice

March 12, 2012

Over the course of a few years, Denae gave her boyfriend chance after chance, only for him to mess up and come crawling back after she kicked him to the curb. She finally put her foot down and refused to let him back in her life. It was a bad break up with a guy that [...]

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Far From Bitter…

February 14, 2012

Once upon a time, there was a single Black woman with zero options (SBWWZO) who didnt have a date on Valentine’s Day. She didn’t have a boyfriend to send her flowers, or a guy to call her just to say “I love you”. She didn’t even expect a man to send her a “Happy VDay” [...]

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Love & Hip Hop: A Ring Don’t Mean A Thing

January 5, 2012

I watch Love & Hip Hop. I am a faithful viewer. I love it. I’mma be pissed if I miss an episode, especially this season because these people are dramatic and crazy and that’s really all I need to be entertained. It is my guilty pleasure, comparable to the soap opera’s that used to populate [...]

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Love Has All of the Lasting Permanence of a Rainbow… And I Give Up

November 28, 2011

“Take it from me: love has all of the lasting permanence of a rainbow – beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.” I saw the above quote while reading My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult last week, and it resonated to the point that I had [...]

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It’s Our Anniversa…Wait. We Don’t Have An Anniversary

May 26, 2011

My boyfriend and I don’t have an official anniversary date for our new relationship. I’m pretty sure he couldn’t care less, but me being the typical girl who enjoys celebrations of love, I’d like to set aside a day to honor our boyfriend-girlfriendship. Yes, I know I’m grown and grown people arent supposed to care about that, [...]

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True Story: I Survived Heartbreak

April 6, 2011

“I know I can’t help you very much right now – God knows what I wouldn’t give if I could. But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends…Try to remember that. And : The only way anything ever gets done is when you make up your mind to do it.”   - James [...]

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Sunday Praise Report: Be A Blessing

March 6, 2011

This week, I stumbled upon the episode of Master Class featuring Maya Angelou from Oprah’s OWN Network. Even though I don’t have the channel, it was on On Demand. I’ve admired Maya Angelou ever since I read “I Know What The Caged Bird Sings” in the 6th grade, so I jumped at the chance to [...]

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Is She Really Batsh*t Crazy??

March 3, 2011

There is a blogger/dating expert who doles out relationship advice to those who send questions in to her Formspring account. Recently, her reaction to one of the questions shocked me, mainly because we pretty much have seen eye to eye on most issues until this scenario came up. A young woman wrote in wondering if [...]

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We Kiss Like The Night, But We Love Like The Sunrise….

February 14, 2011

I saw Brook Yung perform some time late last year at the Golden State Slam out here in Oakland. I had never heard of him, never seen him on Brave New Voices on HBO, had no idea what was in store when he stepped to the mic and blew everyone’s mind away with each and [...]

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