Today I was brought to tears when I looked in my email and saw they were auctioning my storage unit. I immediately called my sister crying. She knows how much I write and how I have so many unpublished books in storage. I thought they told me the 25th was my last day to pay but I must have been wrong. And life has become a rollercoaster from n...

I am posting this because I had a Latino man call me a n*****r today as I stood in line to get my food. I accidentally stepped in front of him on the line to pick up my juice I left behind. The venom in the use of the n- word didn't go unnoticed either. The most basic etymologic explanation for the word nigger traces its origin to the Latin word "n...

You'd be surprised at how many times a woman sits in her car, on her bed, in the bathroom, in the living room and quietly cries because she's so stressed...But when she shows her face again she looks perfectly fine, unbothered and she still manages to smile and go about her business like nothing happened...Women are some of the most resilient creat...