Category: Life

One of my FAV films from the 90s is ‘A League of Their Own’. I can’t explain why I’ve watched that film like a million times. Maybe it’s the story of women who were able to break free and go into an area they weren’t allowed to before. Maybe it’s watching something that doesn’t exist […]

Last year I went to Faith Ringgold’s last art exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. I’ve always wanted to see her work in person. Her quilts were how I first learned about her artistry. It’s been hard to put into words the beauty, significance and awe I experienced when I went to […]

It’s still Black History Month and the theme is ‘African Americans and Labor’ so let me tell you about a tour I took with my mom last November supporting 3 Black owned businesses. Last year while my mom was visiting we went on a Chicago Mahogany Tour. I’d seen Dilla popping up on my Twitter […]

Sometimes you just can’t see up from down when you’re in a situation that you can’t immediately leave.

What happened to sharing thoughts without tracking to see what keywords will get you the most hits? When I first started blogging in 2009, it was an outlet. I still remember my first post on my first blog prayingforpurpose.blogspot.com. I vented about the Principal I had at the time minimizing Black students from participating in […]

As the year was winding down, I was just ready for the new year to get here. Then I went to a Bears game. My first NFL game ever. It was such a rejuvenating experience. Who would have thought that? It sparked me to get back into blogging seriously. I’ve been saying and wanting to […]

It’s been a little over a month since I moved to Chicago for my new position as an Academic Director in education. Y’all I already know that sentence is redundant, but everybody doesn’t know academic and education go together. Just saying. Anyway, I’m finally out of the classroom after 12 years. Not really but no […]

Please don’t get confused by the many dates I have shared on this blog. March 2009 was when I started my very first blog, prayingforpurpose.blogspot.com. Then September 2011 I started Women Are Gamechangers. This was the blog that launched my professional blogging career. November 2013 I started this blog to have space to write about […]

Y’all I found all these things online that had photos or videos I took from years ago. Or that other people had taken from my past events. Photos I thought were deleted but nope. The cloud knows and keeps everything. I was doing my best to scrub my digital footprint (I’m not on the run […]

This is the finale of this edition of going down memory lane. Now this memory is bittersweet. But I can’t ignore what I was able to do and be part of from June 2015-June 2018. Around March (y’all know that month seems to do good for me) 2015 I was part of a Facebook group […]