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One Year Later…Learning To Live Without My Father

I struggled getting out the bed this morning. I had to fight myself just brush my teeth. But I did it, I got out the house today. Today marks a year that I have been living without my father. If i am being honest, I have been holding it together all year just to unravel and fall apart on this day. I knew I was taking off today. I would do nothing but see my son off to daycare, lay in bed, and wallow in my tears. But a wise man suggested not mourning my father but celebrating him instead. So that's Read more [...]

Baa Baa Black Woman Have You Any Strength?

I read a status on Facebook the other day that said "Mama Pope is just another Angry Black Woman complaining about a Black Man"... Clearly they didn't get it. I have been long wanting to write about "Mama Pope's Monologue" since I watched the Season Finale, but didn't know exactly what to say. Until now. The words that Mama Pope spoke came from the core of a black woman's soul. From Black women having to watch their men and children whipped, sold off, raped, and humiliated all while having Read more [...]

Poetry on a Gloomy Saturday

Edgar Allan Poe has always been my favorite poet & one of my favorite writers. His darkness mirrored my own, his pain danced with my emotions. The way he loved held conversations with my heart. His work embodied all four literary conflicts, and sometimes all four were found in one piece: Man VS. Man, Man VS. Society, Man VS. Nature, and of course Man VS. Self. I hadn't written poetry in a while. Today my chest felt like it was going to explode if I didn't release some of these thoughts. So Read more [...]