inspiration without the other stuff
JUNETEENTH I didn’t learn about Juneteenth until I was taught…but I didn’t learn about it in school. It wasn’t until June 2012 when my then TX coworker Melanie Braddy-Skipper of Lena’s Delight Catering & Events, (who can cook her entire face off by the way) asked me if I was interested in the Juneteenth potluck. […]
December 30, 2019 This morning, I sat in the 8th funeral/homegoing I’ve attended this year. Woulda been the 10th if I could’ve gotten the time off from work to pay my respects to the others. Two suicides; the youngest of which was 10 yrs old, one murder, and 4 of the deaths having made the […]
I saw her with a few of her friends bouncing towards me after service. The only one attempting to keep eye contact though several feet away, I prepared myself to return her kindness with a smile. As she drew closer and her smile grew wider she hit me with, “Hey! Is that your hair?!” I […]
Valentine’s Day was a day I hated to see headed my way LOL! It was so bad Honey even the 😍😘❤️ emoticons were triggers ok?! Wait – for YEARS! When I first started my IG page I had only been blogging for less than a year; so between poetry collaboration requests and dudes who didn’t […]
“Dear Mom, This is a meal ticket…” That’s how letters from my little brother would begin when he wrote Mommy during that first and only summer we both went away to camp. Separated for the first time, we were at camps of our own choosing that year; as the Brooklyn Flatbush YMCA Day Camp was […]
When I uploaded my first post on WordPress three years ago today, I had no idea what I was getting into… I’m certainly grateful for what blogging has taught me and (now) excited (again) about the potential it holds but “for real for real“? I’m still winging it. See….Authenticitee Speaks has morphed into a public […]
LOVE & SELF-WORTH Rejection sucks and sometimes not knowing where you stand can be more painful than knowing where you stand. When I love, I love hard, passionately and deliberately with every ounce of my being. From my heart and core, anyone who has been chosen to be a recipient of the depth and kind […]
GOD CAN…I CAN’T When I first launched “Inspiration with E” I was surrounded by people who only knew one fragment of my mosaic. They either saw me as ONLY a love poet @authenticiteespeaks, or ONLY a blogger at http://www.authenticiteespeaks.com or ONLY a mother or ONLY a singer/songwriter/speaker. A few still ONLY see me as the […]
I AM STILL NOT READY TO WRITE ABOUT YOU JAY… Nor am I ready to delete your last voicemail message…nope, not ready. Not ready because I only save the messages I want to remember forever. Things I want to remember forever…just like you. So what have I been up to since we last spoke? […]
I surprised her with blue hair in honor of #AlopeciaAwareness for their final concert last night & let her wear a lil’ makeup for the occasion. I watched him getting dressed, whistling chord changes while buttoning his shirt and adjusting his locs now past his shoulders. Being married to a musician for 19 1/2 yrs, […]
