Writing

Although I practice hot yoga several times a week, one of the greatest benefits is the mindfulness I’ve gained when outside the hot room. The beautiful thing about life is that one never knows when yoga practice will transform into a life-challenge strategy. A friend invited me to attend a monthly storytelling show at a … Continue reading »

In this triple-digit summer heat, some may feel sluggish, gasping for breath in the humidity-filled air, wondering how anyone can logically doubt climate change when every summer seems to be the record-hottest. Even those climate change-denying enthusiasts who hold up a snowball as they willfully mistake “weather” for “climate,” are part of the most insidious … Continue reading »

As a call center agent, I’d normally be very aggravated over the low call volume experienced this week. I took Memorial Day Monday off because I’m a good boss to myself. I continued being good to myself by not setting an alarm to sound at 6:15, so I could rush through the morning routine in … Continue reading »

I imagine the afterlife for wonderful people as an eternity of doing what they loved doing while alive. For Brian, I picture lots of stunt driving, gourmet cooking, playing loud music, even louder laughing, snapping fingers at poignant statements and eating lots of pussy. Is it just me, but didn’t he talk about cunnilingus a … Continue reading »

Conventional wisdom states that practicing a difficult task more often will make that task easier. Well, I’ve discovered a variation on that theme through yoga. I practice 5 times a week, but recently, I started taking a much more difficult type of yoga, ashtanga. Before ashtanga, the most difficult class I’d taken was intermediate Bikram … Continue reading »

A few weeks ago, I hit the wall professionally as two technical glitches prevented me from making money for a week. I did a mad scramble job search, found something I liked, but the training for it was more than I bargained for. In the meantime, all of my creative outlets have suffered in an … Continue reading »

Freedom has a cost. The trajectory of my professional life has gone from being a secondary math and science teacher to an independent contractor who writes, edits and sales insurance on her own schedule from home. Along the way, some companies I’ve worked for have tried their best to recreate sweat-shop conditions in my home. … Continue reading »

I’d never suffered from allergies until moving to Austin, TX. The first time I experienced severe allergies, I thought I had the flu. A friend gave me a clue about cedar fever. Using a combination of hot toddies and a neti pot, I recovered my voice and sinuses. A year later, I started going to … Continue reading »

Somehow I got it in my head that 2019 would be the year I moved out of my long-time apartment with its ever-rising rent and buy a place of my own. Despite the fact that I’ve been underemployed since exiting the classroom. Teaching had grown into an experience where I’d felt trapped. My hair thinned … Continue reading »

Whatever else I do in life, I’m always learning to be more comfortable in my own skin. Unapologetically comfortable in my own skin such that on the day when I’m too Black for some people and on the next day not Black enough, I’m OK on both days.  In an ironic twist, all Black women … Continue reading »