Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
In recent years in my healthcare duties, I worked with younger patients with serious conditions. I had a patient with a stroke in their early 20’s. A person who at 20 was catatonic and required a peg tube. And a person in their late 40’s who went to urgent care with chest pains and…
The one-week countdown to Christmas is here. Most people will have a 3-day weekend off from work and children will be out from school for the week. This time of the year is about joy but sometimes as we are get closer to a break, stress increases in ways we didn’t ask for. So,…
When you know it’s October and you hear about wear pink, we all know it’s for Breast Cancer Awareness. This form of cancer affects women the most, but can affect men as well, so attention from both men and women is necessary. The biggest advice about early detection has been to schedule an annual…
What are you passionate about? Is it what you are currently pursuing or something else? Being passionate about something is not always the path one goes down career wise but there is opportunity for one to still work on it. It is now the fall season, and more time will be spent…
I remember when I was younger, I couldn’t wait until it was Friday, not because it was the end of the school week as I loved school, but because sometimes my mother bought takeout food home for dinner. I would ask for my favorites like Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or a family sized box…
It is Healthy Aging Awareness Month. As I reflect on human life in the last few years, from my personal point of view, I feel like many middle age and younger people are dealing with more health issues or succumbing to these medical conditions as compared to the older generations. The older generation were…
It was the year 2016, I had just come back from vacation and the movie “Suicide Squad” was about to leave theatres. I was still off from work, so I decided to catch the matinee showing by myself. My initial feelings were ones of fear, so I sat closer to the top, in an…
When you are a child starting school, you begin to meet other kids, making friends. During this time everyone is your friend, and the little fights are usually related to toys. As you continue to grow older in grade, middle, and high school, you meet friends but then there comes a point of teasing and…
What comes to mind when you hear the word sisterhood? In Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary it is defined as “a state of being a sister; a community or society of sisters; or the solidarity of women based on shared conditions, experiences, and concerns.” If you look at the last definition of shared conditions and experiences, then you…
I love watching movies and television shows of all genres, but comedies are my favorite. I love comedies about coming of age, romance, action, dark/suspense, and any other type there may be. Some of the comedic shows I enjoyed watching recently were Average Joe (BET+), The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon Prime), The Upshaws…