Last Tuesday I attended a professional development class titled “Having Difficult Conversations,” and the topic revolved around courage and using it to face your fear of having a difficult conversation with your peer/coworker, subordinate, or supervisor/employer. Considering the week (and month) I had leading up to that class, I felt as though I was already using… Read More Having Difficult Conversations…With Yourself
I had purchased this book over six months ago and let it linger on the lower shelf of an end table until last month. In a fit of purging and “clearing out” the old or unused to make space for the new – new ideas, new projects, new perspectives to fill the new freedom I’d been… Read More Book of the Month: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
“The hair is the most elevated point of your body, which means it is the closest to the divine. … Because the hair is the closest thing to the heavens, communication from the gods and spirits was thought to pass through the hair to get to the soul.” – from page 4 of Hair Story: Untangling… Read More I Am Not My Hair… Well, Not as Much as Before
Today marks the start of a new season in the year – autumn! And for me, this month marks the start of a new season in my life – one filled with an extended stretch of free time and reborn creativity in the words, crafts, images, and ideas I generate! But, in an effort to… Read More Small Victories
I know, I know… it’s been a really long time since I’ve last posted to this little blog of mine. But, all good intentions at the start of a new year have to survive the happenings of a new year in order to really make an impact on the person possessing those good intentions for that… Read More A Taste of Work to Come
When I first committed myself to completing my book project by the end of this year, I thought it would be as simple as just pinning my butt down in a seat until I finished the first draft. Very little did I understand of the “business of writing.” To me, writing was writing… the art of creating.… Read More The Business of Writing: Creating a Platform
As you all know, prolific reading makes you a better writer. So, in addition to realizing my dream of becoming a published writer, another one of the challenges I gave myself at the start of 2015 was to bring my inner “bookworm” back to life. To do that, I established a Goodreads account last weekend… Read More Book of the Month: Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps
January is a month full of major life milestones for me, and as I take time to reflect on what has happened in January 2015, I can’t help but also look back over all the other “fresh starts” I’ve made at the beginning of years past! Ever the “eager beaver,” I try to get my wheels in… Read More A Month of Milestones
As we witness or participate in an extended weekend of celebrations surrounding the life and dream of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., I have decided to use this auspicious time as an opportunity to embark upon realizing one of my many dreams – becoming a published writer and book author (in other words, a public commentator on… Read More Changing My World, One Dream at a Time
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