Book Fair Day! I recently attended The Write Women Book Fest in Bowie, MD. As soon as I walked into the hotel ballroom and saw the rows and rows of author tables, I thought, “Ah yes. These are my people.”  I found myself reminiscing about the annual school book fair from my grade school days. ...

Little things are always Breaking The sole of a shoe Splits The back of an earring Vanishes The filament in a bulb Snaps A screw comes loose On my chair And all I can do is Stuff it Tie it Hope it holds The big stuff I can handle Presentations Critiques Launching a book Planning ...

You stole my Voice— Devoured it like a chocolate cookie, Secretly snatched before dinner. But it didn’t spoil your appetite— You yearned for more. So you helped yourself to my Strength— Chewing every crumb, Rolling it with your tongue, Into a cream-and-spit mash. Yet you still hungered, And swallowed my Compassion— Washing it down Like a ...

First it was cramps Grinding, debilitating cramps Tying my abdomen in An impossible sailor’s knot And out came the heating pad— A thick, orange water bottle— And the plug-in blanket, The rice sack that smelled like Lavender in the microwave Double socks Double blankets Pain, searing hot showers 48 hours of misery. After I had ...

The politics of places fascinate me. Deep down, I believe the concept fascinates everybody. Politics are like the two-hundred-year-old tree in the downtown center, its root systems sprawled out in layers beneath the soil. Its bark, an aged face that has seen the histories some try to forget. I argue that the politics of place ...

 Women Left Behind in a Man’s Gym The morning was sunny and bristling with a caffeinated buzz. A cleaner and a cloth were helping to fill gaps in my schedule. I worked to get the equipment as clean as the crisp white ‘Personal Trainer’ emblem stamped across the back of my shirt. This day, my ...

Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 here! I’ve heard multiple myths regarding PCOS. The one that bothers me the most is that PCOS only affects overweight women. It’s simply not true. Many women who have PCOS are overweight. However, PCOS doesn’t discriminate and can affect women of all sizes. The relationship between the two is ...

Read Chapter One Here. When I was in the ninth grade, I got teased for my excessive amounts of dark arm hair. I shaved my arms the next morning and have continued to do so for seventeen years. I have dark brown hair, so I’m almost positive that’s where the dark arm hair came from ...

We as women and individuals need to say no more. We need to stand together and uplift one another. We need to practice self-care and self-compassion so that we may set an example for younger generations. We need to show ourselves and others that not only is it okay to love ourselves, but critical to ...

He is the perfect partnerThe words tumble from her lipsdisregarding anypain or tearspreviously shed He is passionate and dignifiedwords she now uttersas the warmthof his bodycomforts her in his bed His words aresoft and caringlike none she’s ever heardher words describe him boldlywithout the slightest care in the world She’s oblivious to thetime and patienceinvested ...