2025: Happy New Year!
We always say tomorrow is not promised but do we really live like that?
Read MoreWe always say tomorrow is not promised but do we really live like that?
Read MoreHow many times have you bottled things up inside because you figured it might just be easier to stay quiet?
Read MoreWhen TC’s man called her the wrong name and she asked him: “Who the hell is Kim?” You think he was going to say, “Kim is the woman I horning you with?” Nah. It was easier to pretend that he had no idea who the hell this Kim person was.
Read MoreThe next time you don’t get what you want, sit with your disappointment because you are human. But do not dwell on it.
Read More… love is universal, but lived in experiences are not.
Read MoreI will say again, for those screwing up their faces at me in the back: this post isn’t encouraging wanton, reckless behaviour. Quite, the contrary. It is acknowledging that shit happens.
Read MoreI will repeat that: give yourself permission to take a break. I once read nothing in nature blooms all year round and neither will human beings. Or, for those who are religious, Ecclesiastes advises that there is a season for everything.
Read MoreI have seen… I have understood… I have lived the way we are taught to love our romantic partners. We are taught to love them beyond all fault, with a unstoppable, gravity defying sort of love. We are taught that to sacrifice our happiness for them is a noble, romantic gesture. We are taught that boundaries and love, like oil and water, do not mix. We are taught that we fall in love not rise in love and then we wonder why, when it ends - we are often crumbled right where we fell.
Read MoreWe are not living the same life. We do not know what other people go through to get where they are. We are not all meant to graduate, date, get married, procreate, open businesses, lose weight, get promoted, write books or gain that booty at the same rate!
Read MoreThe biggest stumbling block between you and your goals is you.
Read More… what do you do when you are trying your best but real life gets in the way?
Read MoreConsistency will always trump sporadic episodes of excellence.
Read More… walk through 2019 with eyes wide open and armed with discipline and motivation.
Read MoreRead MoreNew year, or not, we all stand the risk of drowning in complacency. We all stand the risk of sleepwalking through huge chunks of our lives because routine becomes so easy. And, because change and growth are uncomfortable and hard processes.
Love wasn’t always heady or frighteningly intoxicating. Sometimes it was steady, rooted. There was beauty in that too
Read More“Wait a minute, the Orlando Johnson?”
Katrina made a face at her best friend. Sabrina was like a sister to her but she could give Lifetime movies competition in drama.
Read MoreOrlando expected his secretary since there were several documents he left the office without signing. It wasn’t Gertrude Payne’s gruff and efficient voice on the other end of the line, however. Instead, he was confronted with the light, sweet warmth of Katrina Bolton’s voice. It was the type of voice that made him think of fields of wildflowers and gentle streams. Orlando’s breath caught in his throat. The only person in the world he’d have been more shocked to find on the other end of his cell phone was his biological father.
Read MoreYou are not an Android, dear. You are human. And we will all have tough times, times that we think might break us
Read MoreThis blog post is laced with irony.
Sprinkled with, covered by and filled to the brim.
Aim for consistency! The only way to be consistent is when your goals do not wear you thin or frustrate you
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