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October 15, 2024

PAIL: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

If you log into my Instagram account and go to my for you page, you’ll see tons of pictures of pregnant mommies, infants, and babies. I didn’t mean to do this. I watched one video of a cute little baby, and now my search bar looks like I am trying to adopt somebody’s chiren. Even… Continue reading

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December 13, 2023

Covering My Head: On Grief

2020 was very challenging for me for reasons unrelated to the pandemic. As I reflect, it was difficult not only because of the tragedies themselves but also because of their proximity to one another. I remember when I got jumped on as a teen by a group of girls in Chicago. Another quickly followed each… Continue reading

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September 9, 2021

90s Throwback Thursday Jams: I’ll Be Missing You, Diddy

“Every step I take, every move I makeEvery single day, every time I prayI’ll be missing youThinkin’ of the day, when you went awayWhat a life to take, what a bond to breakI’ll be missing you” Continue reading

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April 10, 2021

Give Me My Flowers Today

I don’t usually post on Saturdays but on discovering a dear blogger friend’s death at the same time the world is mourning Earl “DMX” Simmons, a thought struck me. As I scrolled through my LinkedIn page (and I am rarely on LinkedIn), I came across this post and was surprised to learn of Sue Vincent’s… Continue reading

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October 20, 2020

The Mistake

This poem was inspired by Maya Angelou’s “We Wear the Mask,” and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Mask.” We define grief as tears, not smiles heartbreaking groans, and complaints an emotion-gripped body that bends and aches a display of physical pain is how we mistake what it means to grieve. We lookout for people who are visibly… Continue reading

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January 27, 2020

How Permanent is this Grief?

Something about sorrow sounds spiritual. It sounds like awakenings and revelations. Sounds like pacts and promises. Sounds contradicting too, like hope and despair are twins. We want to shackle ourselves to change. Something about sorrow got us questioning our own mortality. But how permanent is this grief? Where are we two years from now? Is… Continue reading

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January 8, 2019

YouTube: New Poem Added! Listen to “Grief” #Poetry #Spoken Word

I wrote this poem in honor of my dad last year, inspired by a real experience. I was listening to Pandora and Yolanda Adams “Open My Heart” came on. I usually turn the station because the song reminds me of my dad who died of cancer in 2000. This time though, I allowed myself to… Continue reading

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