Blog Post
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I can hear Summer Walker’s voice echo in my brain while I sit down to write this. Honestly, I’m really trying to stay focused, but the past two pieces left me a little emotionally spent. When you release something that has been hindering your growth and development for so long, it leaves a bit of a
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As a kid, I always had stuffed pockets, an overstuffed backpack, and things jammed inside drawers somewhere. I’d collect things and keep them just because. I carried everything I could find in my backpack because I felt you never know what the day would bring. Extra books, markers, lotion, 30 writing utensils, journals, binders, composition
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There’s a gospel song that says, “sweep around your own front door before you try to sweep around mine.” I always imagined little old black ladies literally sweeping dirt and leaves off their porches, so they could keep up an appearance of cleanliness by ensuring that the exterior to their homes were blemish free. The
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The music of the early 2000’s haunts me in ways that I never knew imaginable. Sentiments still linger to this day, and I’m triggered every time I hear Lauryn Hill sing, “It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard.” There’s a stirring and quickening in my spirit when I hear Tweet
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“What is it about you that I can’t erase?Cause every promise, don’t work out that way..” I’m coming up on the 40 side of my 30’s. You know. You get past the point where you stop saying mid-30’s and start declaring you’re pushing 40. I can say that my 30s brought everything in perspective and
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Growing up in the south with an average size family, I had the luxury of having my own room. It was one of those things that I valued growing into my teens. There were times when my brother and I shared, like after our home was burglarized, but I remember the sense of freedom of
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There are moments when I catch glimpses of myself in the mirror. It’s not a vanity thing, but you know randomly after a shower or as I’m getting ready for work in the morning, and I see these various spots and scars all over my torso and arms. When I was younger I was fascinated
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Last week, I got some amazing news concerning the cancer scare. My PET scan showed no additional malignant cancerous cells, which doesn’t mean I’m in the clear completely, but I won’t have to do any weird chemo/radiation treatment currently. My doctor and oncologist are going to monitor me for a few years, just to make
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Older people always used to say, “If you gone tell it, make sure you tell it all.” That was a sure fire way to keep you from lying to your elders, but I found it to be true in honoring the strength of transparency. So, here we go. I don’t like this. I really don’t.
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Last week on my social media pages, I decided to go live and speak about some of the struggles I was having. I’m my previous blog post, I alluded to 2018 leaving me a gift on its way out, which happened to be a lump in my right moob (man boob). I was initially scheduled
Moments with Marcus 