THE BLOG
She Died Alone…And It Forced Me to Break Everything I Knew
Why I had to talk about this in the upcoming docuseries. There I was standing at my mother’s bedside in a New York City hospital. The room was too quiet. Machines humming. Air thick with something I didn’t yet have words for. A nurse leaned in gently and said, “Go...
When The Bus Doors Didn’t Open
Why I do what I do. I was seventeen years old. And I thought I might die on a city bus in the Bronx. It was 1975. I was riding home from school. Just another ordinary day, until it wasn’t. I come from a lower-middle-class African American family with strong values,...
We Have Something New For You For These Difficult Times
They’re Not Talking… Now What? Let’s Talk About What’s Really Happening in Your Conversations with Your Tween or Teen I want to start by saying this clearly: If conversations with your tween or teen feel harder than they should, you are not alone. People are watching...
To Be or Not To Be Empathetic
Four Things To Consider In this time when everyone is going through something big simultaneously, empathy must still lead the way. We still need some real lessons on how to be empathetic and support each other. I was having a tough day processing yet another...
Relieving the Stress of the Mess We Are Living In
How are YOU handling it??? Yeah, well, last night I almost lost it. That’s right. It took everything in me not to run outside and scream at the top of my lungs for hours. The stress of the times we are living in started to get to me, and I immediately began to wonder...

