My Life Lessons

26 things I’ve learned in 26 years

A while ago I came across an article online that detailed how an older woman wrote lessons she’d learned in life in accordance to her age. It was such an interesting idea that I decided to do the same. Since my birthday was last week, I wanted to write down 26 lessons I’ve learned in […]

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My Life Lessons

Beating the “Birthday Blues”

Last week I turned 26 years old. Most people are excited for their birthdays and usually have plans of extravagant dinners and trips to celebrate another revolution around the sun, but I haven’t been able to identify with that feeling in a while. To be honest, I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed a birthday since I turned […]

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Events, Fashion and Beauty

Summit 21 Recap (Day 2)

As promised, here is the recap of my day 2 at Summit 21. If you missed the first recap, check that out first here. Again, I’ll link the vlog of day 2 below but this blog is mainly for the outfit, right? So, I ran into a dilemma the night before leaving for Atlanta because […]

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My Life Lessons

8 Lessons from Beyonce’s Homecoming

I may be the last person in America to finally watch ‘Homecoming’, a Netflix film following Beyonce’s preparation and performance at Coachella in 2018. However, it should be noted that I am not a passive watcher of television. When I watch anything from Hulu, to Netflix, to cable television, I like to give all of […]

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My Life Lessons

Learning to Pray (part 2)

Last year I wrote a post for those of us that may be struggling with learning to pray. At the end of that post, I said that I would be back for a second installation of that blog post. Well, here we are… In the last post, I said: “Prayer is also one of the […]

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Need Help Learning to Pray?

When I was in undergrad at Florida A&M University, I was a regular at the library. One day, two of my guy friends joined me in a study room and as we usually tended to do, we joked and laughed about the normal college things. Well about 5 minutes into the conversation, one of them […]

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Never Fold Under Pressure

It’s currently 5:09 a.m. and I’m in the airport. I came to Miami Wednesday evening to see J. Cole in concert and now I am preparing to leave and return to my regular routine back home. It’s always nice to get away for a few days even if you don’t do much during that time. […]

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My Life Lessons

How I Passed the GRE (The First Time)

So, I’ve had the intention of writing this blog post for over a year now. (Procrastination sucks) However, today felt like I should finally get around to it. I took the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) in February of 2017. I’d just applied to a graduate school that offered a nice program for what I wanted to […]

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When the World feels Unbearable…

Today was one of those days. You know those days that feel exhausting. Not so much physically, but emotionally and mentally draining. Yeah, those.  Between reading articles of children being separated from the parents at the border and seeing a horrible video of a young man’s lifeless body, I had to find some way to […]

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