Living is a soul trip. Life is poetry. Melanin rich and honeyed, butter brown syrupy — D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics I was born to two teen parents in Louisiana. They had to figure out parenthood and adulthood early in life. …

Pick yourself up and give it another try. Let the floor be fun again. One of life’s most brilliant lessons is we will fail, and we can recover. The wisdom behind this empowering life lesson is our self-recovery process is just as important as our self-discovery process. Our life journey…

Do you know where the crowd is going? Self-empowering life lessons are hard. These complex life lessons advance our personal growth and expand our consciousness. Self-empowering life lessons are usually several lessons within a lesson. But when we get them, understand them, and apply them to our self-awareness journey, we…

Once upon a time, writing in solitude for long periods was a lonely experience, but we can slay that dragon with social media. I don’t know about you, but knowing another writer is alongside me writing and completing a project or story is comforting for me. It feels like camaraderie…

Focus your attention on what makes your day better. Now and then, when waking up on a beautiful sunny day, I think about the quote by Publilius Syrus, a Roman writer who became well known for his humorous sayings, such as: “Today is the pupil of yesterday.” Perhaps, in Publilius…

And I don’t regret it…now. — She said, “That’s why the hurricane blew you back in town because you broke her son’s heart,” my friend said and took a deep breath. Unable to swallow or speak in my defense, I felt the weight of guilt on my chest as a thick knot of regret crawled up…

Darkness shall always come to light. A poem and an essay exploring life, death, and soul. Many traditions consider death the separation of the Spirit or Soul from the body. …

You may discover you’re not as strong as you think. You know the friend who calls you when she's sad and depressed and wants you to be sad and depressed with her? …