Ash is safe and sound asleep in bed right now. And I feel the deepest gratitude for that. Now I sit here at my desk, paralyzed from hearing about another school shooting today in Uvalde, Texas. This is only ten days removed from the Buffalo shooting at Tops’ supermarket. I feel these tragedies unnerving me, so I write…
Thoughts and prayers
Can’t CTRL Me
As I was saying, I think I’ve found my signature nail color, if there is such a thing. Can’t CTRL Me is one of the colors in the new Spring OPI X Xbox collab collection, and I think it’s definitely in the top five of the best colors OPI has ever created. Yes, blue is my favorite color, so…
Have a lovely week and a happy new month
Time keeps on ticking, and here we are in May. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to start back reading more. When I was younger, going to the local book store to pick up an Eric Jerome Dickey, V.C. Andrews, or Sister Souljah novel was my thing. It was satisfying to hold a book,…
Our Spring break trip to Disney World
We broke away from the monotony and cold, gray (fickle) Michigan weather a couple of weeks ago and headed to Disney. The last time we were that way was for Ash’s third birthday. He’ll be six in five months. As I wrote before, I have a very biased, warm, and fuzzy blanket of nostalgia for Disney,…
Happy International Women’s Day
There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. -Michelle Obama
A few thoughts on Queen and Slim—the Black love story I can’t let go.
Warning: spoiler alert. Queen and Slim rattled me. Talk about art imitating life, this movie, though not a true story, is a true narrative. I know I’m late. Queen and Slim came out in 2019. I remember mentioning it in my ‘Farewell 2019′ blog post as a movie I had not seen yet but anticipated to…