As a black business owner, I understand how difficult it is to start out and build your business from scratch. As a person of color, in the “traditional” business world, it is hard to get loans, capital, investors, etc. Thankfully as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is more exposure to black owned businesses and a concerted effort to offer more capital to black owned business owners.
I’m not even going to lie but I am not quite that excited about the holidays this year. Co-vid has dampened the whole holiday spirit for me. Fear for your health and safety will do that. The CDC is not even recommending travel occur and any gatherings of over 10 people are strongly discouraged. Usually around this time, my husband and I would be preparing to go to my mom
Hello readers!!! I am so pleased to share with you all my interview with this dynamic woman, friend, and literacy specialist. Erin and I met over Instagram after she purchased one of my books, We All Need To Come Together, which is a book I was inspired to write after the brutal murder of George Floyd. We connected over being moms, new entrepreneurs, and her love of my books for
My mom once told me that to have the pleasure of doing something you love as your life’s work is something that few get the opportunity to do. Something one should be grateful for. Applauded for. So many choose a different path. This one is the path less travelled. The one that leads to true happiness and fulfilment. There are definitely going to be bumps in the road… but they
My upcoming book, Carrie the Photographer, is due out this fall. It is about a complex, challenging topic, anorexia nervosa. It is for ages 9-12 years old, but I hope it will move children of all ages. I had not seen many books about anorexia nervosa for children and felt that this was an important topic that needed to be addressed. In my profession, I came across children as young
Congratulations! If you have made it this far in homeschooling where you have not had to have a drink every night, had a nervous breakdown, or just given up, I applaud you! It is tough out there, folks. I am not even homeschooling my sons (their babysitter is) but feel the angst. I have two sons; one son who is autistic in a separate setting with other autistic children and