Welcome to my lifestyle blog, where I write about my favorite things: pop culture, travel, career, wellness, fashion, friendship and relationships.
Enjoy! Dareise
All in What I'm Watching
What do you do when you have love, history and an abundance of toxicity in a relationship? I believe even the worst circumstances have something to teach us, but what do you do once you’ve learned the lesson?
When you get to the cusp of the forty-year-old version of yourself, it’s important to be very intentional about living your dreams. In many ways, I am just beginning new chapters full of amazing things my gifts, intentions, tribe and hard work will make reality. If the late-30’s version is any indication of how the 40-year-old version will be, it’s going to be remarkable. Because I say it will. Because I believe it will. And, most importantly, because I will make it so.
Cheers to finding your own voice and following it.
Girlfriends, one of my favorite sitcoms, debuted in the fall of 2000 and had eight seasons. I was starting my freshman year of college when the story of Joan, Toni, Lynn and Maya began. I would catch episodes now and then, but didn’t fully get into the show as a must-watch-every-week fan until about 2005. By that time, I was in my early-twenties and looked at many of the situations, relationships and the friendships between the ladies, through that lens.
I’ve been watching the show over the past few months on Netflix and found myself more interested in many of the storylines and experiences of the characters because I had now experienced a lot of them myself. Here are four things I realized while watching Girlfriends in my 30s.
We’ve come a long way from the days of having perms and presses being the standard of beauty for hair for Black women, but we still have far to go. I used to get so excited when I was an assistant principal and I saw my young middle-school aged Black girls wearing their kinks, coils and curls proudly to school.
