My Life Lessons

Let’s Connect with the Youth

   Last week I volunteered with the Sheriff’s department for ‘Read-a-Thon’. An event hosted annually that is geared toward reading for our youth. While I was there I encountered a Kindergarten aged boy. He was very shy when I asked him if he wanted me to read to him. He slowly shook his head ‘yes’ […]

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My Life Lessons

Where’s Your Inner Peace? [Part 2]

  In the last article, ‘Where’s Your Inner Peace?’ (link to article), we discussed the meaning and importance of having and maintaining your inner peace. I hope you’ve been practicing your daily dump truck mindset in order to help you dispose of all of the baggage and negativity that may have been weighing you down. So, […]

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A Little Insight

      After looking over the blog stats a few days ago, I was filled with joy at the fact that these words have reached across the globe to various countries. But once the joy subsided a bit, I then had to face an internal conflict. I know that not everyone believes in God […]

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Thank you

There are very few things that can be accomplished without the help of others. Less than a month ago I started this blog for the sole purpose of helping others while also helping myself through writing. From Queen to Queens (or FQ2Q as some have coined it) has exceeded my expectations tenfold. I never thought […]

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My Life Lessons

The love you deserve. [Part 3]

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” -Stephen Chbosky Part 3 [Final]: I know that this is long overdue and for that, I apologize. I’ve been suffering from what you may call “writer’s block”. It wasn’t that I couldn’t write anything… however, I don’t believe in writing something that isn’t genuine just for the sake of […]

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“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” -C Joybell C.

My Life Lessons

The love you deserve? [Part 2]

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” –Stephen Chbosky Part 2: If you’ve read the previous post, then you are familiar with my friend ‘Casey’. If you haven’t read the post, I suggest that you do so that this article won’t be confusing to you. Casey and I have another friend named ‘Ashley’. We met Ashley […]

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My Life Lessons

The love you deserve? [Part 1]

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” -Stephen Chbosky PART 1: Recently, I caught up with a friend who informed me of some things she and another friend of ours had been facing. With respect to her identity, I will call her for the sake of this article, ‘Casey’. I met Casey my freshman year of […]

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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time, and always one more time.” -Maya Angelou