I cannot believe almost a full year has passed since I published a blog post. Here I am at the top of 2023 and thinking I should be writing more. Looking at my blog my thought process is on point. I have been so distracted lately. Distracted by the minutiae of everyday life, I've neglected …
A BLACK HISTORY SALUTE
Typically, each year I dedicate the entire month to posting daily facts about famous black people who have left their mark on me or society by either a written word, an invention, an innovative idea, a civil rights movement, or maybe through a song. This year I wanted to do something different. I didn't have …
Dark Place
I often wonder if many others find themselves in a dark place from time to time. Dark, I mean dark where you contemplate different scenarios and outcomes to alleviate your pain. I think to myself there must be others. The dark place couldn't have been saved just for me. Those of us that find ourselves …
Self-Care & Self-Love
Order your copy:Hardcover $23.99 // Softcover $13.99 // E-book $3.99 In 2020 I was very concerned with the pandemic, my health challenges, and the direction our country was headed in the political arena. I was overwhelmed with whether my health and the health of my loved ones would survive the year. I am very thankful …
Happy New Year
It is almost over. It is almost time to bid farewell to 2020. I truly cannot believe how fast this year has come and gone. Most of us have horrible stories to tell about this year, how the pandemic has destroyed our lives and the lives of so many. How the injustices have destroyed and …
BONNIE JEAN TAYLOR
Happy Birthday to my mother, Bonnie Jean Taylor. I miss this lady so much. She was so rich. So full of wisdom, knowledge, style, and flare. I still remember the day she passed as if it were yesterday. It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that she has been gone for thirty-four 34 …
COVID-19
I attempted to write about this pandemic one hundred times. I'd start a piece then reevaluate my decision. Not today! Everything I need internally is in place for me to introduce my spin on this dreadfully rachet hot mess of a virus. I know it's bad and will be for a while. I am saddened …
HUMANITY The world is heavy it gets hard keeping steady. So much news is spewed in every direction. It’s got my mind way to busy sometimes, I’m a little dizzy. As I regain my focus I do a little hocus pocus to put things in perspective. Leaning on what my parents taught, love cures all. …
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
As I listen to all the chatter my heart feels battered. Black, white, what does it matter. BLACK LIVES MATTER, not that others don’t, entertain you today... I won't. Today we are talking about BLACK LIVES. BLACK LIVES that are unjustifiably feared thus hunted and ultimately terminated BLACK LIVES that are poisoned and desecrated BLACK …
Happy Mother’s Day?
The flood of mother's day wishes is somewhat overwhelming. It's not that I am not thankful or appreciative that so many people are thinking of me. Overwhelming because it's been 34 years since my mother passed. Her absence continues to gnaw at my core with so much pain, it's as if she left me yesterday. …
TRACI J. HINDS 