Urban Life Short: Princeton New Jersey. 

De’Maryo and I decided to take a last-minute trip to visit friends in New Jersey. De’Maryo has known these folks for years and you know how it goes, your spouses friends become your friends! De’Maryo’s friend is finishing up a Masters of theology at Princeton University so we took some time to look at the…

Ideas for a Brain Break. Edition 1

I need brain breaks. Breaks for my brain. Moments in my life when I need to escape what is currently going on and do something…else. Not just anything else though. If that were the case then I’d go fold that laundry that’s been balled up in the basket in my laundry room for a week….

My lil’ Vaca

Hi Darlings! It’s been a phenomenal week and I am going to tell you why! I had a lil’, tiny, mini, much needed, unexpected(!!!!) vacation. It was lovely. I went to South Carolina. It was refreshing and refueling. I was invited to attend an #IAmWoman conference and it was great. I heard so many wonderful…

When your help is required in the form of respect.

So, I was reading about this lovely lady named Abigail. She was married to a rock head man who placed her, her entire family, business and staff in deaths path. I like her A LOT. Whew!!! I cannot tell you how much I respect this chick. Her husband pisses off David, who at the time,…

Dear God, I believe but can we talk about it first?

Mary, Jesus’ mother was the original urban mom, wasn’t she! Minding her business doing her thing and suddenly everything changed! She was painting her nails or deep conditioning her hair and in walked Gabriel and in a matter of moments she was a single mother in Nazareth with no baby daddy! LOL. Bonkers. I read…