Circus of Words

20 years ago, I had just turned 5. I was excited about starting elementary school, about learning, and most of all, about growing up--becom...

A while back I started a series about Sunday worship vs the Sabbath: see Sunday Church--To Go or Not to Go , How Sunday and the Sabbath Be...

Wrote this in a semi-conscious, half-sleep/half awake state. Not entirely sure where it came from (maybe whatever I was dreaming) but I like...

I was listening to some people complain a while ago and for some of the things they were complaining about, I couldn't help but think to...

The summer I turned 17, I was working at a water park. One day at work a couple of us were discussing senior year, life after high school, a...

Thought I'd post a snippet from a story I'm working on. All comments welcome (I'd hate to spend years writing a story no one wan...

I 'm asking the question, " Does it matter which day we recognize as the 7th day? " Strictly from a logical viewpoint, th...

O ur country has been in a tug of war for a while now over the issue of "gay marriage"--actually the LGBT community in general. T...

The internet is often a-buzz with chatter about "the friend zone." I've seen countless memes, tweets, and Facebook statuses t...

In the post entitled " Sunday Church--to go or not to go ," I started with the beginning of the question "why do Christians ...

A s I take a break from installing mini-twists (and question my sanity for ever beginning), I thought it would only be natural to end Black ...

E very Sunday my Twitter and Facebook feeds all say the same thing. Everybody feels the need to tell the world they went to church and post...

The final part of my expression of black history month. Part 1 is an expression of me when I was really young (roughly birth through middle ...

II. Enlightened But my roots run deep Twisting and turning, Entangled in the lost legacy… She told me to rise          Because ...

Every year during Black History Month I reflect: on well-known people, the forgotten heroes, the unsung heroes. I reflect on my own experien...

P eople often give me the funniest looks when the word "virgin" comes out of my mouth. I realize we live in a society where peopl...

I've never been a fan of history classes, but for some reason, I find history itself very interesting. It's all in the way you tell...

A long time ago--or at least a lot of conversations ago--someone asked me to write a poem for them. I can write poems on demand, but they us...

E arlier, I wrote a post about the difference in being spiritual and being religious. I took the post down before I publicized the blog bec...

S o I asked a friend to read the last post because I wasn't sure I was saying what I was feeling (or rather it read the way I was feelin...