“Why am I chocolate, and everyone else is vanilla?” My mom told me once that this was the first time I’d ever asked or been curious about skin color when I was young. I was three. If you ask most folks of color when it was that they realized that they were of color or …
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When I pictured myself moving across the country to a drastically different state and culture than that of my own, I didn’t think it would look quite like this.
When you start to fall in love with yourself—⠀ You will feel the incessant flapping of butterfly wings in your belly as you think about the immensity of the future ahead of you.⠀
27 years of living this crazy, wonderful, beautiful life. birthday In keeping with tradition, I am finally sharing 26 tidbits of life lessons I learned (sometimes the hard way) this past year.
WARNING: this isn’t meant to be one of those posts. It’s just a friendly reminder, rather a friendly note to anyone “in the throes” of singleness who are looking for a little real-talk-pick-me-up. I won’t sugar coat it: being single for the holidays isn’t always rosy. But, you know that already. Okay, wait—here’s another one: …
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There really is something about the holidays that just makes you want to bake. It’s like the air gets crisper, the leaves start falling and all you want to do is scour Pinterest for recipe ideas on what you can whip together with the ingredients in your pantry. Or is it just me?
