My Birthday Trip to NYC + The Importance of Romantic Getaways after a Baby

I had to do it. I had to just take a trip and get away with my boo. What can I say? It’s been a lot going on a new baby, baby birthday party, surviving a pandemic, et cetera, et cetera. More specifically, last year, I had a baby 6 days before my birthday. Elated,…

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How I Balance Relationships and Goal Getting

I used to be resistant to the idea of being in a long-term, committed, and deep relationship. Why? Basically, my old mindset convinced me if I was in a relationship it would deter and distract me from accomplishing my goals and dreams. Now, however, I realize balancing the intimate relationships that come with life are…

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Stove Top Mac or Oven Mac ?

First of all, I’m pretty sure I have the best man in the world. His love is so inspirational. I don’t know how the rest of the world lives without him. Sucks for ya, because you can’t have him. He’s mine, but that’s neither here nor there. What makes our relationship great, however, is the…

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Guide to a Healthy Relationship: Be sure to Run a Spiritual Background Check

We have “instantcheckmate.com”, truthfinder.com, backgroundcheck.com etc. etc.  We have our faithful group of homegirls who could moonlight as private investigators because all you have to do is mention bruh name, and they will identify a minimum of three of his last girlfriends, his occupation, income, frat, previous GPA, credit score, and damn near his social security number in less than two hours. We ourselves have all of those good ole social media sites to investigate the quality of potential partners. But, we do not have any application that will help us evaluate the spiritual quality of potential mates. No. No. We have to learn to run those spiritual background checks ourselves before embarking on serious partnerships.

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