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17 Aug Skirting the Issue
I think I come across more serious and a little older (or my actual age I should say), when I wear pants. [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]I’ve come to hate being called cute.[/inlinetweet] I know that I have a youthful face and more often than not,...
11 Aug I Give It Up to God
I’d hate to come in and start dumping my mess on you from the gate. But, y’all. Y’all. I’ve been having a hard time at work. Allan and I had a fight. It got kind of ugly pretty quickly. And on top of all this,...
26 May What I’m Working On
Forgive me for the radio silence. Apple hates me and all my devices. Where is all my memory?! Uh! Anyway… I turned to Sam. “I’m having a writerly conundrum,” I told her. We were at an after-work event two weeks ago. I was her plus...
08 Apr Blinking Blue
I hate horoscopes. I never know if something I’m experiencing is because of a seed planted by some weekly “reading.” Maybe, I was going to have a great day, then I read I was going to have a bad one, not to spend any money,...
10 Mar Why Don’t You… Wear Adidas Slides?
‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” So...
15 Oct Moments of Chic
If we’re to believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. Though, I will say, there is something about getting dressed once the air gets crisp that is exciting to me. It is a chance to begin again…...11 Aug Part 2
Truthfully, I liked the majority of the photos that my coworker took for me that one time I ventured to Harlem for brunch. But I don’t have anything to say worthy of a blog post to go with them.16 Jul On Writing Fashion
One of the first writers that I was ever drawn to, fashion-wise, was Zandile Blay. She was the market editor at Paper magazine, Style & Culture columnist for the Huffington Post and then became the fashion editor at Essence.com before leaving for Nigeria to become Editor-in-Chief at...