How to be more resilient
If you aren’t intentionally placing yourself in uncomfortable, unfamiliar or undefined spaces in your real life, you probably aren’t developing the skills needed to deal with the uncomfortable, unfamiliar or undefined in your work life.
Slow Down And Count The Results
We all know what happens when you try to call the result too soon. A reminder to slow down and take a good, honest look at all that you’ve lost and won this year.
Note to self: no one is coming to save you
The beginning of my notes to self series - lessons for powerful black women of every age.
Covid chronicles: 5 ways my life has changed since the shutdown
I remember saying to more than one person during the initial weeks of quarantine, “My life hasn’t really changed that much…”. But after multiple weeks of sheltering-in-place orders, there have been some pretty interesting developments.
What the big tree in my front yard taught me about being a woman
The big tree in my front yard doesn’t give a fuck about me.
Celebrate Your Own Damned Season - A Different Way Of Celebrating For A Different Kind Of Growth
Each of the past year’s losses came with a gift inside. A jewel of learning and of becoming that calls for a different kind of celebrating.
This Space Intentionally Left Blank - The Airy Beauty Of Empty Space In My Home
One intentional design element I tried to incorporate was emptiness or negative space. My house is single-person sized and the main living space is open concept with lots of windows. I wanted to make sure that the space still felt light and uncluttered even with big furniture pieces - like a dining table, or chairs in front of the windows - in the main line of sight.
Here are some of the ways I worked in blank space to keep my main living area feeling light and airy, yet still substantial enough to be the center of my home’s daily activity.
