I wonder if I was ever really a morning person or if I was just trying to spend as much time with the sun as possible... I have always honored the sun. I rise with it when I can, and every day since the beginning of my memories, I have felt the sunset in my stomach. Watching the bright, ...
28 Cakes: Granting Myself Freedom On My 29th Birthday
Every year I lean over an ice cream cake and use my breath to extinguish a tiny, bouncing flame. Bits of wax drip and roll into the whipped icing as my family claps and sings Stevie’s version of Happy Birthday; loud, and way off key. More often than not, I don’t have a wish prepared, so I say a ...
While the World Around Me Burns: Feeling Joy During a Global Pandemic
The house begins to rumble around 8:00 am, gently reciting its verses. The whoosh of a closing refrigerator. Rubber slippers sliding across the wooden floor. The fizz and snap of a first morning beer. The hollow click as the tv acknowledges the remote’s command. In about fifteen minutes, my cousin ...
Stayin’ In, Stayin’ Alive: My 2019 NYE Essentials
I am always depressed on New Year’s Eve. I don’t know why, and I hate it. I wish I could say I feel a simple sadness, but it’s more like that drowning-in-despair, every-breath-is-labor, I-literally-see-no-reason-to-live type of sadness. If I know anything about this brand of depression, it’s that it ...
6 Things I’m Only Comfortable Admitting With #NotCrazyButHuman [GIVEAWAY]
Next Wednesday Yetti’s Certified 10 is making the mental health space for women of color a little more comfortable by inviting you to tweet (or Instagram, or Facebook) about your insecurities, flaws, or mental health battle. It’s going down July 5th & 6th. More details AND a #NotCrazyButHuman ...