My journey to self-love isn't complete without my first love, music. I was driving in the car the other day and discovered something amazing. Instead of singing the song TO someone else, I flipped the lyrics to sing about myself. This comes in handy especially with love songs. We all don't have someone to dedicate…
Continue reading ➞ 10 Love songs you should listen to in first person
It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it. Being single and happy is work. Especially in a world where love and relationships seem to be the ultimate goal in life. The hours you spend scrolling on social media every day there are photos of couples, quotes about love, thirst traps,…
This will be my first full year without my mom. She's around, somewhere living her best life. I'm trying to do the same, but I have to do it without her. Mother/daughter relationships can be complex. They go through phases. As a teen, mom knows nothing, as a adult you find out mom was always…
We got there on a wing and a prayer let me tell you! I was living in Wilmington, North Carolina a town 6 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The only thing more scarce here than men is a good one, here’s how it went down! So it’s almost midnight and we’re talking on the phone,…
Continue reading ➞ How the best date I ever went on was at Popeyes
We've all been there. Dancing in the middle of the club with your head on the swivel trying to see who's checking you out. Or how about my fave, getting dressed up to go sit at a bar and hope Prince Charming "randomly" sits next to you and sweeps you off your feet. Been there.…
Continue reading ➞ Boy Crazy: You don’t need a man to be whole
If you've never been ghosted before, lucky you. Ghosting is...how do I describe this...ghosting is...horrible! It's not limited to this definition but basically it's when you've been dating someone, everything is fine then out of the blue they just disappear...like you never knew them. Like a ghost. People have a lot of reasons for why…
I thought swiping right on Tinder was finally going to pay off, but I can’t make this stuff up. Moving to North Carolina had brought me many firsts, this being one of the more disturbing. I had a date with a guy out of Fayettville the one night. He was 6'4" dark chocolate, big, bald…
Continue reading ➞ When my date said ‘black women have bad attitudes’
