I never knew love like what I experienced the first time I saw my daughter’s face. In that moment, it felt like my heart had swelled to near bursting. Looking at my husband at the altar on the day of our wedding, felt very similar. I experienced that overwhelming love again when my son was…
I’ve been trying, but losing weight isn’t easy.
I was compensated by Med-IQ through an educational grant from Novo Nordisk to write about the realities of obesity as a chronic disease. All opinions are my own. Do you know why it’s hard to lose weight? Because obesity is a chronic disease. I was always super skinny when I was growing up. In fact,…
Actually Moms, we ARE doing enough for our kids
When I was a mom of one, I was so extra when it came to doing things for my daughter. She had three birthday cakes for her first birthday. I took her to the zoo or museums every weekend before she could even walk. Even though I was a single mom and my money was…
I took a hot air balloon ride and it was a really fun adventure
What should I expect on a hot air balloon ride? That’s all I wanted to know before I took my first trip. I always knew that I wanted to do something different for my 40th birthday. I’m not really the big party or girls trip to Vegas type person for an occasion like that, but…
The benefit of black families taking annual vacations
As a kid, I used to take road trips from Philadelphia to South Carolina every summer with my grandparents and their youngest child, my aunt. “Going down south” was an annual tradition that we all looked forward to. My grandmother would fry chicken and pack it up with pieces of white bread. She’d wrap up…