It’s taken a full year to land in a place of genuine belief that the Me I am, the one you see, can be more than just Me. The Me that I see when I stand in front of the mirror, can authentically be the same person in my personal…

What do you know about, I mean really know about: Being completely unable to get out of bed for days straight Not showering for days Seeing hallucinations of your kids dying

JAY-Z issued a World Stop commandment when he dropped 4:44 at midnight on Friday, June 30, 2017. I Heart Radio played the album in its entirety for 24 hours. Tidal customers set it on repeat after the first play though. Non-Sprint customers kicked, cussed, and fussed hunting for ways to…

…Lemonade the visual album triggered me in ways only a manic imagination can. “Y’all haters corny with that Illuminati mess” …Under the circumstances, Hubby made me get rid of my account. Left to my own devices, I’d have obsessively jumped right back in where I left off: Manically drowning everyone around me in Lemonade. …Then I caught a couple tracks from 4:44 in the middle of the night via I Heart Radio.

You reduced me to nothing all because I couldn’t do what you can do the exact way you do it. But it got done. You diminished my value because you couldn’t see past your expectations to see my true worth. Still I shined. You cried and whined when I found my…

I’m an introvert. I swear no matter what anyone else tells you, I really am. …

No, for real. If you wanna know who I am and what I’ve done, do your homework. Check my resume; I’m on LinkedIn. Check my personality; I’m on Twitter. Check my brand (though mainelement: love is on hiatus); I’m on Facebook. Check my musings; I’m right here on Medium, among many other places I have written or been interviewed over the years. My name, my credentials, my background, my skills, my talents, my abilities can all be found very easily with a simple search.

I happened across an interesting post on LinkedIn a few mornings ago. A recruiting manager outlined his experience regarding a recruiting tactic, that in his own words “ I could not believe how brazen this recruiter was.” Having spent a brief amount of time as an agency recruiter in…

I Should Thank the Police for the Relapse of my Panic Disorder *Disclaimer: this is not an easy read. In fact, it’s rather dark. Ironically, a trigger warning is necessary. There’s gon' be some stuff you gon' see that’s gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you…