We are the most arrogant people! We think we know best what to do with our own lives, we think we can handle any and every situation ourselves, and we think we got to where we are based on our own genius and cleverness. But the smartest among us with
So, it’s cold outside. Because it’s cold outside — and subsequently, I’m cold when I go outside — I start to think of all the things that would make me less cold. Like: See? This right here is why I need a boyfriend with big arms! I would never get
One of my favorite tea party criticisms of President Barack Obama is that he hates “American Exceptionalism.” Yes, the Columbia/Harvard Law graduate, self-made millionaire, and leader of the entire free world simply cannot stand to be the best. This is certainly reflected in his choice of an equally ivy-league-educated wife,
In the Fall of 2005 — my senior year at Hampton University — I went to my aunt the beautician to have my hair cut off. She refused. “You’re always complaining about your hair not growing like you want it to…I am NOT cutting off your hair!” She said to
When I received an invitation in the mail to my law school’s annual Black Law Students Association event, “Intro to the Bar,” I tossed it immediately. Nope, not going back there. My knee-jerk reaction surprised me. I love my law school, I love my professors, my career is on track,
So every now and again, I completely lose my mind, forget myself, and go on dates with men God has clearly shown me — in more ways than one — that I have no business being around. Inevitably, the date is a disaster, I am utterly disrespected by a guy
In my childhood favorite movie, the main character, Aladdin — posing as Prince Ali Ababwa — flies his magic carpet up to Princess Jasmine’s bedroom window and asks her to climb aboard and go for a ride with him. “Do you trust me?” he asks, wide-eyed and smiling. Nevermind the
I went to an event for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on Wednesday night. Dubbed a “Meet & Greet” event, I half-expected to — Meet & Greet Fenty. That did not happen. I was slightly surprised by this, and not just because Fenty has been having a bit of a P.R.
This is my Neo moment. I am sitting before Morpheus and he has one pill in each hand: the red pill, and the blue pill. Time to choose. Fine, it’s not that dramatic, but I do have a potentially life altering decision to make. Two very different jobs with two
If you’ve never seen the T.V. gameshow “Family Fued,” its title may mislead you. It is not a reality show wherein families argue and publicly air their dirty laundry. Instead, a family — a team of all sorts of blood relatives — pool their knowledge in order to guess the