I don’t fight with folks on social media. I don’t see the point. It’s gotten to the point these days that I don’t even comment anything unless it’s something a friend has posted because people wild out over nonsense. Today, I didn’t listen to my own advice. I commented. I thought it was the moms’…
Gratitude in the time of COVID-19
Last night, I was putting the girls to bed. Daughter #1 had a bit of a meltdown. “I don’t want to do school tomorrow! I hate the stupid virus and I hate school at home.” Daughter #2 agreed wholeheartedly. I took a deep breath. I hate the virus and I wish the kids could go…
Top 19 shows and movies to binge in the times of coronavirus
How is everyone doing? I’m settling into some kind of weird new normal. Afternoon walks around the neighbourhood–ensuring that we stay six feet away from neighbours we come across. Binge watching TV news to hear every little thing that’s COVID-19-related. (Remember, get your information from reliable, reputable sources. There’s a lot misinformation being shared online….
Broke Pocket Diaries: Encourage yourself
“Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out.” Stakes is High (1996), De La Soul Some days. Some days are rough and you don’t have a cheerleader to encourage you along. On those days, you need to know how to encourage yourself. Be your own cheerleader. Get yourself…
Broke Pocket Diaries: The opportunity to fail successfully
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. — C.S. Lewis Sounds like an oxymoron, right? As a Black girl, my parents always told me that I had to work twice as hard to get half as far as my white friends. On an episode of Scandal,…
Our first Disney trip—Part 3: Hollywood Studios and Toy Story Land
If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2, make sure to do that before joining us for Part 3 of our first Disney trip! So, after the secret show at Magic Kingdom, everyone and their mother was trying to get out of the park because it was really closing time. It was about 11:00…
Our first Disney trip–Part 2
If you haven’t read the first part of our Disney trip post, head over to that post first and then come back over here! When we exchanged our email for our tickets at the ticket counter, we received ‘First visit’ buttons. Let me say this: Disney knows how to take care of their guests. Although…
Black girls need to know they are beautiful too
Quotes like these make me roll my eyes, honestly. I’ve seen so many of these types of memes making their rounds on social media. The first time I saw this meme was before I had my own daughters. It ruffled my feathers then because I remembered my years in school as a dark-skinned, skinny…
Our first trip to Disney World–Part 1
Whew! It was a jam-packed five day trip to Disney World in July 2019. Now this was a trip that was over a year in the making. In Spring 2018, Hubby and I were pondering taking the kids to Disney. We had a timeshare trial that was running out that good for four nights at…
Broke Pocket Diaries: Why can’t a job just be a job?
Yes, that’s my question: why can’t a job just be a job? It’s funny that over the last 1.5 years, I’ve seen so many people in the same space: work is trying and they are trying to figure out their next steps–whatever that is. One underlying thing that I’ve heard is that there is a…
The Accidental Natural 