Growing up we didn’t talk about sex or our bodies. It wasn’t because my parents didn’t care to talk about it but moreso because you just didn’t back then. I say “back then” like it was SO long ago but really it wasn’t. Over the last 10 years I’ve seen and heard so many disturbing […]

I suppose I realized that things might be different when I married a black man but I didn’t truly understand what “different” meant. When I was in highschool I remember sitting next to a few black boys and overhearing a conversation about their lunch at a nearby restaurant. “Yeah, my order was totally fine, but […]

I got married when I was 18 years old. I remember thinking back then that ‘love’ was pretty permanent. My parents had a very strong marriage and I couldn’t imagine a day that I didn’t love my husband as much as I did when we got married, or that he would ever stop loving me. […]

I had braces for 4 years and I wasn’t great at brushing my teeth as throughly as I should have. It was so hard to get into all of the little places that I just ran a tooth brush over them and called it good. When I got them taken off I immediately regretting not […]

My husband just recently went back to work after 6 weeks of paternity leave. It was honestly the best. We haven’t spent that much consecutive time together since….ever. We were reckless and when I say reckless I mean we were staying up until 1030 watching movies, eating Crumbl cookies and laughing. We were getting up […]

I’ve always been obsessed with having a bright white smile but I swear since having kids, I regularly pass out on the couch before remembering to brush my teeth at night. Growing up I had braces and when those were removed I was left with two permanent retainers behind the top and bottom rows of […]

He was so little when he was born, my oldest. 6 pounds 7 ounces and the tiniest piece of heaven. In the 9 months that I was carrying him he had become a part of my body. When he was born and they rushed him away for some medical care it was like they had […]