What are your biggest challenges? It’s encouraging to stand your ground, but sometimes silence is the best method. One of my biggest challenges is reacting. While I have gotten better, I feel if it keeps happening, it is obviously something I need to work on. My next challenge, that a lot of women will either…
Category: growth
As of Now
Are you a good judge of character? When I was younger, probably due to abuse, no, I was not. I felt because I had been hurt, how could I cast down others? I paid deeply for that thinking, people continuously abused my kindness and pretended they did nothing wrong. Now, even the slightest off behavior,…
Happiest
When are you most happy? Whenever I am in the presence of my significant other, or early in the morning, when my boys clamor into my bed, with sleepy faces and quiet responses. When I can rest, and clear my mind. Feeling the ache of my feet. Whenever I think about how far I’ve come,…
Integrity
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? I learned the word when I was 12, and hardly saw it demonstrated. People would prefer to be unscrupulous, always scheming to get their way, instead of doing the right thing. I call it the grey area…the void where people assume a little good and bad…
Less Perfectionism
What could you do less of? The absolute need to attempt perfection when I know it’s more than just a falsehood, and has hurt me in the past. It’s unrealistic and pointless. I prefer the cycle of life to what I was taught – to walk, talk, dress and seem a certain way. The moon…
Too Many To Name
What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year? I will name my top three- 3. Finishing The Fray! It is a 100k word Dark Fantasy novel. So many people have reached out about it! This novel is meant to reach Afro-Latina, African Americans and everyone in between! A lot went…
Dodged That Bullet!
I tried to play match maker and it didn’t work! I won’t reveal who or why, but I found the two would not make a good pair. As one is very sweet, and kind. And the other just wanted to get their next fix! Assuming this person admired my relationship, I hoped to match them…
Flaws and All
What is one thing you would change about yourself? Not a thing, really. I wouldn’t fully be myself. I accept my flaws and all. Without them, I’d only be a fraction of who I am. Etching parts we don’t like about our self out of the equation doesn’t ensure you’ll be better off. Working on…
Oh No…Not This Again
It happened. Things were picking up and doing well, and along came a spider. Hm. Maybe a different analogy. Along came a human being, unbeknownst of the road I’ve traveled to get here. It started off kind – the type of syrup that’s goopy and serves no purpose. It immediately jettisoned into a duel. “My…
The Heiress JCS 