I am turning 30 this year and I knew that I wanted to take a solo trip to a place I'd never been to mark the occasion. This led me to the Pacific Northwest, a region of the country I hadn't explored much. My birthday is not until November, but I decided to take the trip in the spring and…
I recently started listening to Glory Edim's anthology Well-Read Black Girl on Audible. The book derives its title from Edim's book club, which spawned into an organization with national chapters and a festival that takes place in Brooklyn annually. For the book, she asked renowned, black women authors in all genres of literature to write essays based on the question:…
There is a difference between what we know and what we accept and this year I learned what life looks like when I accept what I know. Over the past few years, I have been making an effort to live whole-heartedly. Three years ago, I wrote a daily affirmation. Two years ago, I started keeping a journal. Last year, I…
I remember a few years ago, one of my good actor friends in NYC called me raving about a new musical he saw called Hamilton at The Public Theater. He poured over it using words like "amazing," "genius" and "Broadway bound." Sure enough, he called it and less than a year later it was the hottest ticket on the Great…
My last day in a traditional 9 to 5 office job was July 31, 2018. I am now pursuing a career as a freelance writer and full-time lover of life. Nowadays, I feel the full range of emotions in a given hour-- fear, joy, excitement, terror, anxiety, confusion and exhaustion. This is the first time since kindergarten that I decide…
"When I write a review, it is sometimes the only review, and therefore the only historical documentation that a specific artistic event occurred. I hope to fill the information gap. After all, journalism is in service of the people -- those who are living now and those who have yet to be born." I was recently featured by Atlanta Daybook…