"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are …
Hurt people, hurt people…
I grew up in a black Baptist Church on the corner of two financially neglected streets in Baltimore's Inner City. My home pastor was like my father and while I would love to say that I paid attention to everything that he ever preached, I didn't (sorry Pastor!) But there was one particular sermon that …
I am my sister’s keeper…
I grew up with two sisters. I grew up with having to share things with others. I grew up living in the shadows of my sisters. "You know, when your sister was your age she was doing ____." Blah. Blah. Blah. While I love my sisters to the moon and back, the second we were …
#TellMyTruth3
Today I moved back home with my mother. And I have been experiencing a flood of emotions all day. On the one hand, I am thankful that I have a place to move back to (not the most grammatically correct sentence, but you get the point). When my finances went awry due to the accident …
You could complain…
It's Friday. Whatever semblance of patience that you had disappeared by Wednesday morning. Yet here it is Friday afternoon and you are trying to find the strength to last the rest of the day. The same colleagues that worked your last good nerve on Monday have returned with their unsolicited encore performances today. When you look …