The Art of Getting Past the No:How I’m Learning To Deal with Rejection

This year I have had more rejections than I have received in my entire life. I have also put myself, my writing, my art, out there more than I ever have – so it is inevitable that along my journey I’m going to hear the word, “no” and often times more than I do yes….

Who Are You When No One is Watching?

Did you see the movie Us? The Jordan Peele film is full of twists and turns and tons of fan theories. I believe one of the underlining messages is that sometimes we are the actual monsters, the villains, the bad guy. We can be our own worst enemies and often the bad guy in our…

Where Did You Go?

    I feel like death is surrounding me. Kind of a morbid way to start a conversation…or blog, or anything really. It’s 100% true though. In the past month alone I’ve found out about several deaths of people that played important roles in my life at several different times in my life. I’m starting…

5 Times your Girlfriends Gave you Horrible Dating Advice

If I had of listened to my friends dating advice I would have been pregnant at 16, married to a scammer, with a body count well past a fifth graders counting abilities or possibly…and I mean this in all seriousness…dead. As much as our close girlfriends love and care about us, lets face it, sometimes…

Six Funerals and a Wedding

    My Funeral is next week. I remember accidentally saying one week before my wedding. I dont know why I mistakingly said funeral instead of wedding. Maybe it was due to hearing the word funeral so much as so many close friends and family were losing loved ones so close to our wedding, maybe…

8 Signs You are Self Sabotaging Your Dating Life

      It’s Summa summa summa timmmmee and after getting quite a few calls, texts and outright cries for help about men and dating issues I figured I would come out of hiding and help my ladies out. Around spring and summer men tend to totally forget their home training, morals and the fact…

5 Issues You Need To Stop Bringing into Relationships Immediately

Recently I hosted a ladies wine night at my house which consisted of a ton of wine, appetizers, vegan cheesecake that was a hit or miss depending on who you asked, trash talking, confessions of daddy issues and some deep revelations about ourselves few of us hadn’t even realized or admitted to others prior to…

5 Signs He’s A Keeper

When I first met my fiancé I knew right away he was different from any guy i’d known let alone dated. At 19 that wasn’t many guys, but he was just – different ok. He didn’t dress, act or talk like most guys I knew. He wooed me with impromptu R&B ballads he played on…