It’s funny how sometimes you can look up and realize that time has flown by much faster than you expected. The seasons have changed twice over, and you find yourself in a season both new and unexpected. Things that you did not mean to put down, you now find have begun to collect dust. Wins… Read More Moving Forward: Notes for Your Next Journey
Your hair conversation – Register for the first Wanderer’s Corner free event, HAIR TALK FOR BROWN GIRLS on Sunday, September 27th at 6 pm ET. One of the areas I am passionate about is natural hair care, especially for Black women. I reached out to blogger Cydney White of workitcurl.com, blogger Kethia Gates @love_mamathia on IG, business owner Bri Hart of Fly Honey Oils, and naturalista Breanna Rivera @thebreana.r on IG to partner with me in providing an inclusive opportunity to discuss the various natural styles, ways to maintain, and answer YOUR hair questions. … Read More Let’s Talk Hair: Your Spot at Hair Talk for Brown Girls
One of my ultimate visions is that this blog will serve as a space of community, uplift, and encouragement for women on the things that make us uniquely ourselves. We are encouraged to think of life milestones like graduate college, get the job, get married, have kids. However, there is so much more to the intricacies of our lives. This will be a space to discuss, share, and celebrate THE MORE!… Read More Announcing The Wanderers’ Corner: Your Gift
While this year was initially meant to be one spent exploring a new city, it ultimately became one of me exploring and becoming familiar with myself in new ways. I was left to revisit and to also face for the first time some essential questions about and for myself…… Read More The Beauty in the Unplanned Lessons – The 26th Birthday Challenge
With the travel, adjustments, and lifestyle changes, including getting used to living a place that had a real winter, my first few months were spent trying to get comfortable and feel consistent in the city. I had set my sights on March as the month that things would get a bit warmer; I’d be travel free; and I’d have time to really start to be social, meet people, and build a life. I was able to do one brunch; then BOOM, I found myself being put on work from home due to the coronavirus. While I am grateful to still be working, this was not how I expected my move to go. . I thought going to Niagara Falls was going to be the start of a continual high. Now the changes that I was prepared for now had their own changes on top of changes….… Read More Niagara Falls Queen to a DMV Quarantine: Making Space During Change
Visiting both of these places in the same year highlighted for me that Black History and the work for equity here and across the world comes with so many layers and pieces. MLK Jr. had his dream in the same place where years later a form of music would be birthed out of the poverty and struggle of those that he had been fighting for.… Read More BLACKLANTA – The National Center for Civil and Human Rights to the Trap Music Museum
2019 was a year that began with a lot of personal hope and ambition. I was eager to share my blog after sitting on the idea for almost a year. I was in a job that had me feeling beyond burnt out; but I just knew that I would be coming into a new job soon since I had been applying places, networking, and meeting with a career counselor for months…… Read More Looking Back to Look Forward: A Honest Note on 2019
Saturday morning, we found ourselves slowly creeping out of bed with the sun already up, later than planned to start our 1.5 hour drive to the Grand Canyon South Rim. I truly think that Arizona has some of the prettiest drives because the diversity in the landscape in just an hour was stunning. We got to the Grand Canyon around 11:30 am, and it was already busy.… Read More Arizona – Small Girl at The Grand Canyon
I was supposed to be going to Radium Springs the next day, and my mind immediately went to the thought that I would no longer be able to go. I did not yet realize that I would not be doing any of my trips outside of the one to Stone Mountain, 5 minutes from my home, for a few months after this. … Read More Tales from 24 – A Quarter Century Loading…
It was the day to visit the site of my last Georgia 7 Natural Wonders, the Okefenokee Swamp, and we were now on a time crunch…When we finally woke up, it was already 9am, so we were now within a very narrow of window of being able to make it to the park and actually tour the swamp at all. … Read More Okefenokee Swamp – The Final Georgia Natural Wonder