They say your hair is your crowning glory.  That didn’t resonate with me until I went natural.  My hair also didn’t get much attention until then as well. I went natural after feeling the burn of the relaxer (and the scabs that followed) one too many times.  I had braided my hair one summer,…

I have an interesting relationship with God.  He (sorry feminists) and his son Jesus are my homies, but we don’t always see eye to eye.  In fact, lately I’ve been giving him the side eye… Like most of my friends, I grew up going to church every Sunday, all Sunday.  There was Sunday School, sometimes…

Kevin Hart has a hilarious joke about staying in his financial lane.  But thinking about my finances is no laughing matter. My parents struggled financially & lived paycheck to paycheck up until retirement.  Somehow they made ends meet and raised three kids on meager salaries.  As immigrants with limited skills and education, they didn’t have much of…

My parents are Haitian.  My dad was born and raised in Cap-Haitien.  My mother was born in Cuba, but her father was Haitian.  I believe that after her mother passed, he remarried and moved to Haiti with my mom.  My parents later met in the Bahamas, had my brother and then moved to Florida and…