2/21/2024 0 Comments Ah, yes, February, otherwise known as Black History Month…. I try to make it a point to learn something new each Black History Month. If the American education system had it their way, we’d just be learning that Dr. King protested peacefully and Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus…

8/23/2023 0 Comments I have always loved expressing creativity. As a kid I would write stories and draw, and as I got older this creativity morphed and changed. I still (try to) write, I tend to draw little doodles and design logos and things, and I’ve dabbled in things like embroidery and scrapbooking.It goes without…

Opening up my journal again for the first time in a while, this entry is the beginning of a series I’m calling “Type4Real”- featuring real talk about all things relating to natural hair and texturism, as well as colorism and the concept of Blackness. These are topics that are important to me personally, and I…

2024 Reading Resolution 2/12/2024 0 Comments  Like many other kids, I grew up a big reader. Every week in elementary school, I was ecstatic to go to my school’s library and check out a stack of books to tear through that week. I have so many fond memories surrounding books. I remember being a fourth…

Blogging and I have a… unique relationship, to say the least.  It seems like the perfect medium for me. I love words- eloquently expressing my inner thoughts through language. My fascination with language goes so deep, going all the way back to my early childhood. It’s one of the things that has held my fascination throughout my…