What’s A Man

Several months ago, I went to see a movie in theaters. It impacted me so much, I went back to see it again with my mom and sisters. The movie was Harriet. If you haven’t seen it, rent it when it comes out! The whole movie is one challenge after another as you see...

New Year’s Eve

Fireworks explode in the neighborhood as the clock struck 12. I walked into this evening with the utmost trepidation. Like Cinderella waiting for her beautiful dress to turn rags and her carriage to collapse. I, on the other-hand, was not wanting to catch a prince, or...

Discovering Dimple

Beyond the cracked sidewalk, and the telephone pole with layers of flyers in a rainbow of colors, and the patch of dry brown grass there stood a ten-foot-high concrete block wall, caked with dozens of coats of paint. There was a small shrine at the foot of it, with...

What Are We Building?

I was listening to someone speak about giving. Those messages are always fun, right?! As the man went on he made a big deal about building the church. As he was speaking I had an epiphany. We (the people) are the church. You’re probably thinking, you just figured this...

What Grief Has Taught Me…

What Grief has taught me is that you’re never ready for its arrival. Grief is more than a human heart can bear. You never get over it, but somehow you move forward. The only way forward is through it. Grief is intimate. For me, sharing certain aspects of it seems...