Category: Life

Art, Charity, Children, Community, Culture, Life, Memoir, New Orleans, Photography, Urban Neighborhood, Youth

St. Roch Community Youth SoapBox Collective hosted by Making Connections NOLA & Crescent Care Health

On Saturday evening, Mother’s Day Eve while most of you were out shopping for last minute Mother’s Day gifts for the phenomenal women in your lives; several of us from the St. Roch Community sat in a room in support of our talented youth and adults from our neighborhood. We came together in a low lit community room to listen and see the works of our youth entitled” Soapbox Collective,” you may know it by Open Mic for an evening of music, performances, and works of arts that engage the issues of our young people. Continue reading St. Roch Community Youth SoapBox Collective hosted by Making Connections NOLA & Crescent Care Health

NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence
Business, Chronic illness, Culture, Life, Memoir, New Orleans, Photography, Urban Neighborhood

NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence

Life is for living, and we all come into the world to die, but we weren’t birth just to be murdered. It’s a man-made problem, and we can stop it. 

Please support Mom’s Demand Action Nola and Nola Wear Orange if the most you can do is wear an orange ribbon that day! There are more ways to spread awareness than attending. Continue reading NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence

My Nola Life: Onset of TNT Claws Season 3 and OWN Queen Sugar
Life, Memoir, Movie, New Orleans, Non-fiction, Photography, Uncategorized, Women

My Nola Life: Onset of TNT Claws Season 3 and OWN Queen Sugar

My life in New Orleans is filled with days of soulful creativity! The jobs I have taken on since I moved back home are all connected in their various forms of freedom of speech, the use of writing and telling our stories. It’s as if I was written into all the scripts opportunities that have presented themselves upon my arrival. New Orleans is all that I knew she would be. In the midst of my pain, she helps me pin my sorrows of my soul, giving me an outlet of healing and freedom. The warmth of love here far better than vitamin D. You never know I may be on this path for my ultimate role as a movie writer ☺️! Continue reading My Nola Life: Onset of TNT Claws Season 3 and OWN Queen Sugar

Life of a Fast Tail NOLA Girl: My Teen Years 1988
Life, Memoir, Non-fiction

Life of a Fast Tail NOLA Girl: My Teen Years 1988

My teenage years were so confusing that I was willing to downplay something so sacred and precious as my virginity… I wonder who I told them I gave it to??? Maybe it was just a raising of the hands that would answer the question of “Who had sex before?” Meeeeeeee!! My lie would be revealed once I accomplished the act, but foolish tail would continue to deny that I wasn’t a virgin just so I could part of the cool crowd,  I think… Continue reading Life of a Fast Tail NOLA Girl: My Teen Years 1988