Seeing I Speaking I Healing
Once upon a time many years ago I sat at my desk in high school envisioning the perfect future. I saw myself married to a handsome and loving man and mom to five bright eyed and bushy tailed kids. Fast…
Read More Guest Post: The Single Black African Mother by Mondisi Mabhena
In light of the recently celebrated Africa Day this past Monday, I thought I'd share some of my thoughts around the African continent. This is a place that I am truly passionate about and that I love. I recently read…
There is a strange phenomenon that has become widely accepted amongst women, and seemingly especially amongst my black sisters (those are who I interact with most anyway). It is an almost unspoken but known occurrence. It happens usually when a…
Purpose. That word tends to evoke an array of reactions from people – never neutral though. Either, they turn quickly away from it because of the amount of effort required to discover it and they really don’t have the time…
Back when I used to watch The Oprah Winfrey Show religiously, something that she said stuck out for me and that was the fact that every single person on this Earth has a story to tell. Every one of us…
What does it mean to be a black African woman (bAw)? Who is she? Why is she on this earth? What is her contribution to this world? Over the most recent years, I have been learning so much about life:…
