Choices and Consequences

It is like this year just ran by. It is hard to believe that we are already approaching the end of the year holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the beginning of the year: New Years. Seems like just yesterday I was celebrating January birthdays. If you are making any travel plans for the... Sign in to see full entry.

I came from seeing the movie Straight Out of Compton. While it featured the many uphill battles endured to start off and continue to this day the rap/hip hip movement, I was impressed with the groups refusal to be silenced. One of the noteable quotes "from the street of Compton slinging rocks to the... Sign in to see full entry.

It was a rock kind of day for me today, the kind of day where everything is moving but yet standing still. "Hello. It's been a very long time. You haven't aged a bit. Let me help you with that." The familiar voice ranted as I fumbled the car key in the door. Oh! thank you. That was very kind of...my... Sign in to see full entry.

Is it really important to meet the status quo or keep up with the Jones'? I'm sitting here wondering as it seems to me, why people wanna put on or be something they are not in something that belongs to someone else? I don't understand what the pretense is all about? Sign in to see full entry.

I sat listening to a Sheik's Kutbah past-Friday as he explained "many things that are taken place in our world today because we are simply not letting our individual and/or collective voices be heard. Our heard voices ultimately make or break the simplest to major issues." As he was speaking, I... Sign in to see full entry.

This is quite controversial and some may even command me to get a life: A very dear male friend and steady sex partner for me over more than a year chimed these words to me from R. Kelly's song: "my mind's telling me no but my body's telling me yes... I don't see nothing wrong with a lil bump and... Sign in to see full entry.

As a little girl, I often wondered why me? I grew up unlike my class-mates and most traditional families where there were either a single-parent or a mother and a father in the house. I grew up with two mothers. Back then, the right to your own sexual preference wasn't as liberal as it is today now... Sign in to see full entry.