Remembering MLK

Martin Luther King…His last speech U2: Pride Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love [...]

Just Call Me Lioness Please

In 2007 I started tweeting and I couldn’t figure out what to put in my twitter bio, so I put the first thing that came to mind and that was, “Just call me lioness please.” That was it…nobody needed to know anything else. Here we are 4 years later and I’ve finally changed my bio [...]

My Favorite Gifts

My life is measured out in gifts received in abundance. I admit that I know how undeserving I am of most of the gifts I’ve gotten. Christmas for me is the example of the greatest gift…God’s own son coming for me. I don’t deserve it, but he still gave him to me. Jesus, dying on [...]

Comfort in Food

Growing up in a household of 6 kids, we learned to eat pretty much anything put in front of us, but our mom was (and still is) an amazing cook. The other night when we were celebrating her 70th birthday(a few months late), one of my brothers talked about how  we learned our love of [...]

My Mind’s a Blur

Of course I’m up at 6 AM on a Saturday. Why would I want to sleep in when it’s 20 degrees and snowing outside. I woke up, laid in bed and my brain was a frenzy of activity. There’s only so much of that you can take, so I decided to do myself and the [...]

Beyond Perfect

How do I even begin to explain how my wedding day was beyond perfect? Really, I promise it was absolute perfection and bliss. I feel like I need to start off with a disclaimer and tell you that my wedding day would not have happened so perfectly without the help and work of so many [...]