There’s no where else I’d rather be. I wasn’t born here and as I look back on my life and reflect on how I got here, I’m in disbelief at times. Some New Yorkers are born here, and some are made here. I don’t need 10 years for someone to tell me that I AM a New Yorker, because this was always who I was meant to be.
Read MoreDespite all that I have been through I am almost certain that there will be other obstacles for me to overcome and I GET TO experience it all. It’s a privilege to be alive and I’m HERE for it!
Read MoreI don’t know how we got to this notion of having to have it all figured out in T-minus 30 seconds. Some of the precedents we model our lives after are a bit unrealistic when we should model our lives on what works for us, not society or an entity. All I know is, that whatever comes, I am so ready for it!
Read MoreI just have a really good feeling about 2024, it’s comforting to know that whatever I am lacking there is hope. There is the belief in the better of tomorrow. I CAN’T wait!
Read MoreIt’s you and it’s me, it’s all of us together living as one. As corporate capitalism continues to invade, Central Park remains the one tried and true thing about Manhattan.
Read MoreThere was a moment this evening as I re-visited my old neighborhood, one of my old favorite restaurants too, and well, if I’m being honest it felt like I was really visiting older versions of myself when I realized, I really am growing. Perhaps above all else I am healing and to think it all began when I was living in Harlem.
Read MoreWe’ve made progress, yes, but we have work to do! And in the words of a woman, I so greatly admire, Ms. Jennifer Lopez and of course one of the world’s most beautiful women is Latina like me, “Let’s Get Loud…Ain't nobody gotta tell ya what you gotta do. If you wanna live your life, live it all the way and don't you waste it…LET’S GET LOUD!”
Read MoreI’m happy going through my day-to-day. Wrong. If I’m not being challenged or things to change often, I get bored and fast. It occurred to me a while ago, that those years without acting were years where my life felt grey. The arts color my world. Is life easy? Ha. Absolutely not, but a life that is made easy all the time I’m convinced is not a life worth living.
Read MoreHowever, I’m still human. We all are, but can we just take a moment to come together in love and light? Celebrate success, celebrate each other’s wins? Pick each other back up when we fall? If you got me then I got you! Let’s remember to stay kind, humble, and go forward in love and light.
Read More“everything is meaningless until we give it meaning…we often think we have to assign something meaning to be able to understand.” What are you giving meaning to? What are definitions are you applying? What are you saying to yourself? The worst thing you can do is, be against yourself.
Read MoreFor all the things that I have accomplished, it all began with the thought and belief that I could do it. Conversely, all the things I have yet to do I am working on finding the strength to do them.
Read MoreWhenever we take a picture, or a sculptor makes an artifact or a painter paints a portrait or a landscape, each of which over time generates scars or marks from years of wear and tear, and yet we still call it art. We ARE beautiful pieces of art, slightly cracked but precious all the same. Extend grace to yourself and most of all, to others too.
Read MoreI know that it’s hard to find the silver lining or something to be grateful for. However, if as I mentioned in my previous blog, we are being given a gift even if it requires digging a little deeper.
Read MoreWho would have thought we’d miss the earlier days of quarantine when the pandemic first hit? I certainly didn’t think I would. That’s when it hit me, as dark as something appears on the surface, this is a gift we have been given. We just have to dig a little deeper to find it.
Read MoreI tell myself that the best is yet to come. As days go by in the blink of an eye, I fear the end is near. Hold onto faith my soul cries out. Do not fold, do not cave as you learn how to behave in this new world.
Read MoreI tell myself that the best is yet to come. As days go by in the blink of an eye, I fear the end is near. Hold onto faith my soul cries out. Do not fold, do not cave as you learn how to behave in this new world.
Read MoreAs I stepped out of the revolving door of work and began my walk towards 40th and 5th Ave, I thought to myself, “yup, Manhattan is home”. Some days I don’t know what to make of this city, and yet I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Read MoreSometimes I’m a fan of cliches, sometimes I’m not. In the interest of this being a new year and a new decade I’ll do my best to avoid that whole, “new year, new me” b.s. because let’s be honest change doesn’t happen that quickly.
Read MoreI’ve been thinking a lot about what Pastor Carl has been preaching about lately which is the idea that “How you think determines how you feel. How you feel determines what you do. What you do becomes who you are.”
Read MoreAs I stepped out of the revolving door of work and began my walk towards 40th and 5th Ave, I thought to myself, “yup, Manhattan is home”. Some days I don’t know what to make of this city, and yet I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
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