#Truthmoment So many kids are struggling with addictions to vaping and weed of all forms. Let me just go ahead right now and tell the truth. As much as I was born in Jamaica, I have never smoked weed. Drop the stereotypes right now, not all native born Jamaicans do weed. Not that I neverContinue reading “Students are you addicted? It’s time for your freedom”
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Students are Scared
We all have fears typically designed to set us back or slow us down. Post pandemic some students have been struggling with going to school. For parents, when we think about back to school, we often focus on getting our children supplies, books, and other material needs related to school. Too often, as parents,Continue reading “Students are Scared”
Let it Go: Mistakes & Mistreatments
Sometimes our past can be so messy. Mistakes, misunderstandings or even mistreatment can scar us severely. As we start this year, let’s dig deep. Ask yourself these questions. Is there anyone who disappointed me that I’m holding resentment for in my heart? Have I been holding on to painful memories for days or even decades?Continue reading “Let it Go: Mistakes & Mistreatments”
Hold your head up
You are stronger than you think
Black Women: It’s your time Queens
Women are indeed an awesome creation. I’ve been raised by two, and I promise you, you’ve never seen so much ingenuity at work. My mom and grandmother didn’t have it all. They started with very little, a bare foot walking girl and woman. Grandma, her sisters, and their mother and father carried sugar cane onContinue reading “Black Women: It’s your time Queens”
Put your mask on first
NEGATIVITY IS POISON TO THE MIND AND A PERSON’S ESSENCE. It can become a 2-way channel, it enters by who we listen to before we make decisions, and then it’s cemented when we act based on the advice. It is really easy to become a host of negativity and not realize it. With so muchContinue reading “Put your mask on first”
Two Worlds… One Country
It. Is. July! Half the year is behind us. Can you believe we made it? We’re still here my people, alive! January, February, March, April, May, June, went by slowly. Here comes July 2020. What a whirlwind! First, the world went on lockdown. Now America feels like it’s going through a metamorphosis. The racial divide,Continue reading “Two Worlds… One Country”
A YEAR AGO, RACISM RAGED & moms must still pray for God’s protection of our black men and boys
These past few weeks of back to back killings and arrests of black men, has been weighing on me. Today, after a reporter got arrested for doing his job, and it shocked some people… It broke me! All morning I cried for my children, my husband and many black women across the diaspora are cryingContinue reading “A YEAR AGO, RACISM RAGED & moms must still pray for God’s protection of our black men and boys”
An abnormal new norm
A monster pandemic has been unleashed upon the world. Weeks of quarantine. School, work, everything… from home. Hospitals overwhelmed. Loved ones overran by a virus, resulting in virtual or drive by funerals from the sidewalk. For me, the new norm is like an animated horror movie in slo-mo. Does anyone else feel like we’re stuckContinue reading “An abnormal new norm”
LIFE’S ROLLERCOASTERS (Climbing through fear)
Welcome back. Today I’m thankful for a new day. A day, I’ve never seen before or will ever see again. In the book, The Secret Door to Success, by Florence Scovel Shinn, she tells this story. Shinn went to visit her friend in Brooklyn. Her friend loved to do strange things and asked her toContinue reading “LIFE’S ROLLERCOASTERS (Climbing through fear)”