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Bonjour les Amis,

Family, Inspiration, Lifestyle, TravelJun 201View 0Likes 0Comments

After a long week of traveling— A night with my cousin and family in Acworth, Georgia gave birth to new memories: sunset and a chat on the deck, takeout and red wine, darkness and fireflies blinking between pine trees. Zuri created this silly game and they played it for hours. Love listening to them laugh!! A…

SNACK AND SAND HOURGLASS

Family, Food, InspirationSep 0995Views 0Likes 0Comments

There was a time, Markolee took a shower every afternoon at 4:41p.m. He is my time keeper. The child who is waiting at the door at 8:55 when I say I’m leaving the house at 9. He was seven years old when he scribbled the letters sand-hourglass on his wish list. He almost jumped out…

Things They Don’t Teach In School

Family, Inspiration, LifestyleAug 1990Views 0Likes 0Comments

I was strolling down the aisle of a store a few weeks back, when I spotted a little blue box with the above-mentioned title. The title, printed in large yellow letters, stopped me in my tracks! Maybe it was because I have been homeschooling my three children for the last ten years and I wanted…

My Diverse Life

Inspiration, TravelJul 24112Views 2Likes 0Comments

My love for languages and diversity derives from the time I spent in seminary. I was eight years old when I realized that diversity is essential to creating a solid society. Seminary, which my family and I nicknamed the village, was where I learned that without the beauty of languages and diversity this world would…

Laughing and Crying With My 83 Year Old BFF Barbara

Inspiration, RelationshipsMar 0571Views 1Like 0Comments

I facetimed my 83-year-old BFF this week. It took her a couple of minutes to focus her camera, and while she was doing so, she said, “Don’t hang up, Kiddo — I’m going to figure this thing out.” I settled on my couch and waited for the shaking to stop and her face to pop…

Our Love Story Was Published in The New York Times!

Family, Inspiration, RelationshipsFeb 26326Views 1Like 0Comments

A few weeks ago when the New York Times Modern Love Editor reached out to me, via email, my kids had just gone to bed. I screamed with such excitement, they ran out of their rooms to see about me. We held hands, jumped, and screamed together. I Met My Husband on the Maternity…

I. AM. My. Own. Person.

InspirationNov 2042Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, after a long day, I sat on the couch with Markolee — my ten-year-old son. Usually, around this time I would have been cooking, trying to get dinner on the table by the time hubby came home from work, and before the kids would be leaving for youth night. Yesterday, however, I had enough…

Spread Your Roots, Shoot Out New Life, and BLOOM.

InspirationSep 0543Views 0Likes 0Comments

Wha nuh dead, duh dash ih way. ~Jamaican Proverb On a recent trip to Panama City Beach, a friend gave me three firespike plants fighting for their lives.The soil was dry, some of the leaves were burned to a crisp, and the few green leaves that remained were struggling between brown and green. “If anyone…

Home is…

Inspiration, TravelMar 1674Views 0Likes 0Comments

I migrated from Jamaica to the United States when I was eleven years old. I have lived in four states, seven cities, and thirteen homes. From these experiences, I have learned: Home is not just a physical space. Home is daily conversations my sister, laughter with my brother, and the length of my mother’s never-ending,…