Love Marriage

The last few weeks have been tough, a reminder that life isn�t always pretty. It gets hard sometimes to see all the good when something bad or evil happens. I know that I get caught up a bit and my mind runs wild with thoughts and Sean and my sisters often have to tell me to stop. I cried so much when I heard the news of Vegas so I can�t imagine how those who lost loved ones (because of a senseless terrorist act) feel. Coming from a person who goes to Vegas 1-2 times per year, I know the excitement one feels when they�re in Vegas. This is a place that I call Disneyland for adults. And for a person to take away that feeling for no reason, I just can�t understand. And because I can�t understand, I can�t stop thinking. At this point, I just begin to feel hopeless. Because tragedies like these continue to happen and nothing is changing. Our lawmakers/government are not making the streets safe for any of us. It is not right that you can�t go to the movie theatre, church, concert o...

I often want this space on the internet to be light and fun but it is also my diary of sorts and I can�t leave it blank from what�s going on in our world. Let�s just say that I�m at the angry stage. I was in disbelief at first (not sure why because America) but now I�m pissed. And the issue isn't even that I'm pissed, the issue is, why aren't you? The thing is that when you�re a black person living in America, you�ve already dealt with a lot of issues that people can only imagine; and sometimes they can't even do that. It�s being followed when you�re in the store because of the color of your skin, it�s white people telling you that you don�t talk like a black person as though there�s a way to know what a black person sounds like, it's being told that you�re pretty for a black girl by more than one white person, it�s being told that you got the job because of affirmative action; when in fact white women are the ones who have benefited the most from affirmative ac...