“Babe, are you almost ready? We’re gonna mess around and be late.” “Yeah, give me five minutes,” I hollered from the bathroom. “You said that 15 minutes ago.” “You know beauty like this takes time. Better to be late than ugly!” I could tell he was walking down the hall into the great room. His voice got more faint with every step. “Girl, you know your pretty ass ... Read More

Note: This post is best read with Kanye’s “I Wonder” playing in the background “I’ve been waitin’ on this my whole life/These dreams be wakin’ me up at night” On Friday, I wrote the words I’d been dreaming of writing since I was a young girl. I told the world (or my little piece of it) that my writing is featured in the September issue of ESSENCE Magazine. “Selfie ... Read More