Faith. Life. Culture. Fashion
God is fond of talking to me at two inconvenient times: when I’m in the shower and when I’m in bed at 5 in the morning. When I’m sleeping, he stands over my bed and pokes me. “Pst…are you sleeping?” I pretend not to hear him and roll over. Sometimes I put a pillow over [...]
photo credit: me I believe every person should live life thoughtfully, being fully who you are, fully aware of your gifts and fully using them. (Okay, I will not stuff the word ‘fully’ into any more sentences. Scouts honor). Here’s my top 10 ways that I keep myself inspired to go and get the life [...]
Have you ever noticed that WE are the new media? We bloggers, we facebook-users, we Twitter-tweeters? We Pinterest-pinners? We tumbling-tumblrs? Any one can slap some words on an image, post it to facebook, pin it on pinterest and all of a sudden it’s “truth.” In fact, Tumblr was made by this: the ability to easily [...]
For the past few days I have been thinking “what the $#^%$&^% did I just blog? About pornography? About me?!?!?!” On my run today I was listening to the TED talk; Doctors Make Mistakes, Can We Talk About That? by: Brian Goldman. After his talk, I was glad blogged on pornography…and…me. Brian helpfully admits how [...]
I have been thinking a lot lately about the whole idea of ‘doing what makes you feel happy.’ There’s a lot of pinning going around about being happy. There’s a lot of people advocating (and abdicating) for a whole lotta non-sense in the pursuit of happiness. It seems, everything from offering-the-morning-after-pill to 13-year-old girls to [...]
Advent, Day 1.
(Am I getting really carried away with my long blog titles lately? I think so). I promise you my blog isn’t turning into a fashion blog —though how fun would that be? (Maybe a different blog eventually? I have considered this)! So. Wanna help me get dressed this weekend?
Last year, I wrote about how I experienced 9/11 as an angry, black racist. And how 9/11 served as a catalyst towards my coming to grips with my own racial identity but also the my anger towards America. I was going to add to it but realized it’s good the way it is, hence the [...]
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