Chasing Ray
Dear First Love, Life is no longer like a box of chocolates, I seem to now always know exactly what I’m going to get. I’m going to get a slightly different version of the first I’ve been chasing. I watch a lot of Criminal Minds- it’s my all time favorite Criminal show currently and one … Read more
Is Love Ever Really Lost?
Dear Heartbreak, It’s amazing how easily I could dismiss the love that was lost as not meant to be but the heartbreak that continues to cling on seems inevitable. For some odd reason it was so easy to accept that the love just wasn’t what I thought the love was and even easier to accept … Read more
I Don’t Hate You but I Don’t Love You
Dear Heartache, There is this moment in a break up when we feel as if we are caught between two polar opposites. I don’t love you anymore but I don’t hate you, despite how many times I may have said this to you over the course of our long good-bye. Love is a Choice brought … Read more
Falling in Love is A Choice
Dear Broken Heart, It’s so easy to feel like I am at the mercy of you, left with nothing but the shattered pieces that lie scattered about my feet, some shards large and easily identifiable but others small and hidden in the rubble that has since accumulated, some fallen deep into cracks that may never … Read more
Bag Lady
Dear Erykah Badu, I did not come into this world celebrated by the world as a Black Nubian Queen, there may have been a silver spoon nearby but upon my tongue, beneath my lips it did not rest. As life has progressed and I have evolved I have become a beautiful, Black, independent, prosperous, talented, … Read more
We Can’t Do It
Dear Cheater, I have had so many interesting conversations over the past couple years with both my female friends and my many male friends regarding the issue of cheating and I find it so interesting the way there is so much justification from grown adults about cheating. It’s with no judgment that I write this but I … Read more
Halfway Ever After
Dear Male Species, I have been highly in review of you over the past couple years and what I’ve noticed and pondered upon is that you didn’t grow up with the dream of Happily Ever After the way we girls did. Which is the only reason I can think of to explain why you would … Read more
I Gotta Love Jones for You
Dear Melky and Day, Ladies and Gentleman the Refugee Camp presents Melky Sadek on alto and Day on falsetto. Bringing back the old vibe. Every night before I fall asleep I think of you, wishing that someday you’ll lay with me the whole night through. Ever since the day I saw your pretty face I’m … Read more
Family Man
Dear Family Man, I have had similar moments to the glimpse down the path you didn’t take that could have been. Much the same as you were a successful and talented businessman, happily living a single life; I am a successful and talented career woman, happily living a single life. No children, no husband and … Read more
I Kissed the Prince
Dear Snow White, This is the second time during my professional career as a teacher my team of teachers and I have chosen to dress up as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s always such a delight to have the students come in and exclaim with delight as they first see Snow White and … Read more
