Use Your Refund to Get Ahead
This is an updated version of a post I wrote last year.
As I hear about how people are using (or in some cases, wasting) their sometimes large income tax refunds. I felt compelled to share my story again about how I used tax time every year…
Love Yourself
If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine's Day proposal.
I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn't read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two…
My S.O. What! Valentine’s Day Proposal
Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.
Time to Learn to Sew…Make a Stitch. Save Nine.
...ignoring it, pretending it didn't exist, thinking it wasn't as bad as I already knew it was, thinking it would fix itself, or just moving on to the next thing.
It’s MINE…A College Course that I Created
When I came to the University of Memphis in 1997, I was a scared but excited freshman with a two-year-old son. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined the amazing things that would happen for me through this school. Miss UofM,…
Yesterday I Would Have Been Married 7 Whole Years
I didn't even think about it until I logged onto Facebook and saw my friend's anniversary pictures and remembered that she had gotten married the day after I did (the year before).
What? I didn't think about it.
Nope, it didn't cross my mind…
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A Mother’s Job
You never really know what to expect from a new job until you do it.
I've had several new jobs, but with each one, I quickly got the hang of it and got pretty comfortable, and new what to expect from day to day and year to year. The anxiety…
That’s Not How the Story Ends
On the first day of spring, my son welcomed his daughter into the world. On Easter Sunday, she turned one month old. I was so excited to take her, her mom, and my son to church to celebrate Christ's resurrection.
One of the songs the choir…
