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aspirations dreams figuring it out makin moves words October 22, 2017

Write.

1985. In a class full 30 fidgety, morphing 11-year-olds Ms. Gagliardo instructed us to begin breaking our classroom into about 5 groups. She chose the groupings regionally so that folks sitting near each other could…

aspirations dreams figuring it out makin moves October 16, 2017

Wildfire

I’ve listened to literally hundreds of motivational speakers in my life. Whether it’s been me in a crowd in person seeing them on stage, hearing them speak their truth to me on an audio book…

esteem growing makin moves work crap August 23, 2017

Awkward Black Girl Who ROCKS

By virtue of being on the team at BET Networks, I had the fortune of attending Black Girls Rock this year. However, by that same virtue, I was only afforded one ticket. So I…

excursions figuring it out friends good times love & marriage makin moves September 14, 2005

Blowout

The Setup Today’s account will be of the experience that I had being one of 100 some odd Brides to be at a Kleinfeld’s / Brides Magazine / Good Morning America event. I got put…

aspirations figuring it out makin moves August 23, 2005

Revival

So after giving myself a day to completely wallow in my own self pity about nothing that happened to me recently — just the residuals off of watching SFU on Sunday then getting absolutely NO…

figuring it out future gazing love & marriage makin moves August 5, 2005

The Dress

I walked into the boutique and it was your standard wedding dress boutique. Cute with the pink walls and ecru and ivory colored dresses lined the walls. It was cozy, and empty. At the time…

check in friends health makin moves sorority stuffs July 20, 2005

Newness

I’m feeling the resurgence of my old self coming through. I’m really excited about it because… it’s about fucking time. I’m back in the gym next week… the week after that, I’m taking a week…

celebrations love & marriage makin moves mommy stories June 28, 2005

Feel It

So we went to get Max into some dresses yesterday. It’s only after the fact that I realize I could have been snapping away in the dressing room at the gowns she was trying on……

celebrations love & marriage makin moves June 24, 2005

Real

That’s what the date is. It’s “in the book” as Glenn from the catering hall said today as we put our first downpayment on the hall we’ve chosen to have our ceremony / reception. Now…

makin moves work crap June 3, 2005

Free Bird…

Free Bird… And other non-wedding related tales from the week past Free Bird: My baby did it. He flew the coop. He’d been stressing extra hard about getting out of the B.O.P. to the point…