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January 6, 2025 Culture, Love and Marriage, Videos

Limerence is NOT Love

January 6, 2025 Culture, Love and Marriage, Videos

Limerence is an involuntary state of intense romantic desire for another person, characterized by intrusive and obsessive thoughts, feelings, and…

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My Mother was a Greenliving Minimalist Before Instagram Told You It was a Thing You Should Be Doing
September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 Culture, Raising Kids, working mom

My Mother was a Greenliving Minimalist Before Instagram Told You It was a Thing You Should Be Doing

September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 Culture, Raising Kids, working mom

I took my daughter thrift store shopping a few weeks ago and she was intrigued by the artifacts we found…

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Books Black Bookworms are Anticipating in 2019
January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 Book Worm, Culture

Books Black Bookworms are Anticipating in 2019

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 Book Worm, Culture

2018 isn’t even decomposing in its grave and I am on my THANK U, NEXT! . As for books authored…

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Why are some of the greatest fiction writers of our day afraid to challenge the status quo?!
January 19, 2018September 22, 2018 Book Worm, Culture

Why are some of the greatest fiction writers of our day afraid to challenge the status quo?!

January 19, 2018September 22, 2018 Book Worm, Culture

Even when I love the world these imaginative writers create, I’m disappointed by certain reoccurring elements

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January 15, 2018September 21, 2018 Culture, Raising Kids

Learning to Let Our Daughters Frown

January 15, 2018September 21, 2018 Culture, Raising Kids

And I wonder how often we force girls to play a role to fit the confines of our expectations at the cost of their individuality and self-expression?

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November 16, 2017September 21, 2018 Culture, Raising Kids

Photo Series: Reaching for Ambrosia

November 16, 2017September 21, 2018 Culture, Raising Kids

There’s this fruit tree existing amongst concrete and steel, yet it dares to bare fruit. Out of reach. She’s got…

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They don’t know about Haitian women. During the They don’t know about Haitian women. During the Haitian revolution there were multiple women who were military and strategic leaders. Like Victoria Montou a midwife, healer and brilliant military mind who became a Lieutenant in Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary army. She built an indigenous army of former slaves and native Saint-Domingue people, training them in guerrilla warfare and combat tactics.

And she is one of multiple women of considerable note in Haiti’s revolutionary history. Don’t try Haitian people. 

Never forget: Haiti, the world’s first black-led republic & only nation established by slave revolt in history, had to pay REPARATIONS to its French enslavers. $21 billion today, crippling debt that took 122 years to pay off.
I used to think that being a Pastor would probably I used to think that being a Pastor would probably be a very stable job in the age of AI, just because of how interpersonal it is supposed to be. (Mega) church entrepreneurs and consultants in the business of church said: Hold my purse. Churches already use AI tech to analyze data, attendance, and engagement. Pastors are using AI to write their sermons. So they are saying every church or house of worship is a business.
Parents are human, and we will mess up so let’s Parents are human, and we will mess up so let’s talk about rupture and repair in a parent and child relationship. 

This is a lessons learned storytime. I’m a mom of 2 young teens and one preschooler who also serves as a parent and self-parenting coach

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