Career Advice from a Millennial

My elbow isn’t broken anymore so I can type better which means my backlog of handwritten blogs is coming at you. I am in no way a career expert but I’ve done the hiring and I’ve been hired so that makes me a little qualified. I gave up on the title of this and didn’t…

& Crown Skin

You sat in the sun too long.  Taunts from my peers haunted the elementary halls What’s self-esteem? Little ‘ol me wouldn’t have known it break little girls down before they can even know it It seemed like I went through an eternity of teasing before I embraced my skin. “This is it, this is me….

& Presidential Hangover 

On  November 8, 2016 I fell asleep around 10-11 PM after briefly tuning into the election coverage knowing I should’ve continued my Girl Meets World marathon instead. Although I wasn’t ecstatic as I’ve been in the previous presidential elections, I still felt a need to do my civic duty. I vote in every election no…

& Your Words, My Life

When I was a kid, I hated my cocoa colored skin. I didn’t have a reason either. Turns out I hated it because everyone else hated it. I got pushed and shoved and called names that I still remember to this day. I still vividly remember the fresh tears rolling down my cheeks after one…

&– Blessings & Friendships

(Me & my big brother when we were babies. I’ve always had that smile) &– Blessings & Friendships Today I went to go visit a couple old friends who I haven’t seen it about six years. Of course I went with my best friend who I’ve been friend with since the sandbox and we could’ve…

& Pursuit of Happiness

  Within the last year, I’ve been rearranging my life in the pursuit of happiness. Some might say my decisions are a quite crazy and others are happy. Epiphany after epiphany the universe seems to let everything fall into place. I have this knack for thinking things through and over analyzing things. Usually once I…

& What do you want to Be When You Grow Up?

What do you want to Be When You Grow Up? Lately I’ve been content. I can’t settle for content though because of the fact that I’m generally a happy person and everyone knows this. So content is not good enough. Recently I’ve reflecting on why I’m not happy and when did this unhappy occur? Then…

& Generation Y

Generation Y is a misnomer. Y implies we follow in our parent’s footsteps, Y implies we agree with the horrors they have created and left us to not understand. Y implies we are the same. We Are Millennials. We are a generation of Change. We are both Generation We and Me. Good and Bad. Hopeful…

& What Is Life…What Does It Mean?

Recently huffing and puffing about life I told my mother that I do not want to be a secretary for the rest of my life. When she asked me why I didn’t want to be stuck at my new mundane 9-5 desk job that had salary pay and nice benefits I responded, “It don’t make…

& Someone Tell Me What To Do

Finally my senior year in college has arrived and I’m all over the place, panicky becase as I mark the days off my calender til graduation I feel like I can not breathe. It’s not because of any particular project or the fact that my senior thesis about writing has to be 25 pages. (ironic)…