Birthdays and grief are a thing. I’m just learning this. I knew it, intellectually, but I felt it like a fresh cut for the first time this last birthday. First let me back up. Two weeks ago, my mom wasn’t well and I was called to take her to urgent care. We’re in a pandemic […]
I’m so excited to finally have this work alive and available in the world. Here is the link to access the free pdf download. Whatever your path here, I hope you are curious and asking: What can I be doing differently? As a Real Estate Professional/Lender, how can I explore and challenge the ways racism […]
Oh, how I have struggled with being both/and. You can’t be sexy and smart. You can’t be goofy and smart. You have to be serious to be seen as smart. You have to tame your sensuality to be perceived as smart. When I was in middle and high school I was told I was pretty […]
*I am a white woman and my reflections are from a white perspective directed to fellow white folks. 8 minutes and 46 seconds. An eternity. A lifetime. The end of a Life, a beautiful, precious Life. For many, those 8 minutes and 46 seconds were also the beginning of a new awareness of the ways […]
I grew up believing I belonged everywhere I went, even in the rooms filled with older white men in boring navy suits. While I tugged at my loud zebra print skirt I noticed I was a little out of place but I still felt like I belonged there. Raised to believe I could do whatever […]
Someday I’m going to tell you about my Mother’s eyes. Not now though. If I tell you about her eyes now you’ll see what I see. The dull gaze. The vacant stare. The tiny pupil. So so small. Yesterday, she held my hand in hers. It was warm, she was close, and her skin so […]
