I stumbled across this amazing and soul changing artwork earlier this week on Pinterest. During the week I was having a deep thought about how far Jesus has already brought me. I found myself teary-eyed one day while I was on my lunch break after thinking about the goodness of God. How the God we serve is such a forgiving, uplifting, and loving God. Around this time last year, I was walking around with a lot of pain bottled up in my heart. I was frustrated, angry, and faking my happiness.

Ode to the joys, pain, and the excitement it is to become a mother. People seem to ask me all the time, "Linda, when you and your husband are going to have a baby?" All I can honestly say is, "Well, whenever God knows we are ready." At this point in my life, God knows that I am not ready to become a mother nor is my husband ready to be a father. However, I love envisioning having my own family with my husband in my daydreams.

I met Natori Green at the New Orleans Natural Hair Expo during the Essence Festival weekend. Natori's paintings were truly beautiful and really made me take in the beauty of not only natural hair, but brown skin. Let's have meet Natori and find out more about her and her talent.

I wanted to finally share with you all my skincare journey with the hopes of inspiring someone else to not be afraid to embrace their flaws. I have been suffering with hormonal acne ever since I was a pre-teenager. My skin in this photo was taken on January 29th, 2016. On January 29th, the day before my birthday I made a vow to myself to take better care of my skin. During the span of these 7 months my skin has been on an uphill battle of staying clear. Here are 5 ways that I have learned to combat my hormonal acne before it flares up during that time of the month. (Ladies, you know how mother-nature can be so disrespectful to our skin.)

There is so much more to natural hair than the eye can see. Having natural hair is truly unique and very special. There is no one person that can say that having and growing your natural hair is wrong. I have been natural for over 5 years and here are some of the misconceptions about natural hair that I have came across. Brace yourselves for this read...

The month of July isn't even over as of today. So much has happened in these past two weeks that it has been mind blowing. The day that I started my job my husband lost his. Yes, God moves in mysterious ways. (I will touch on this more.) I am now in my second week of being at my new job. It took me three days into my new job to truly realize that I won't be constantly making any hot coffee or mopping sales floors during the late afternoon hours. The need to clean and hop on the register has ceased. I last week I had to accept the change and the blessing that God has given me.

He is probably the type that talks a good game and doesn't back it up. Or he probably always wants to have sex and get him and hardly ever worry about you getting an orgasm. I want you to know these five tips before letting him go, because of the sex...

There I was at one of the three cash registers with one of my co-workers on the side of me taking a guest. The line was growing longer with every customer that was checked out. I looked down at the bottom of my register's screen and the time displayed 5:55pm. "Can I take the next guest?" I asked as I pursed my lips together and positioned my scanner to start ringing up items....

My days have came to an end for working for a very popular and well-known gas station that's located in the south. I spent over one year and seven months working at a gas station, and it was indeed a very humbling expereince. On July 10th, 2016 I retired my work gear forever. Working at a gas station has changed my perception in so many ways about life and my health. Here goes just seven things that I have learned from working at a gas station. 

As women we sometimes find ourselves wanting to reach out for our man's wallet instead of using our own money more than just a few times during the week. It then depending on him for his money becomes daily action. It probably starts to feel weird when we use our own money instead of his. I just want you to know that going back to learning how to budget and save your own money will keep you from becoming dependent on his wallet. Here are a few damn good reasons why you should have your own money. 

There is a serious problem that you need solving at the moment. In your heart you want things to work, but you know that talking to a man that already has a woman! This guy may have a girlfriend, fiance', or even a damn wife! You find yourself texting and even talking to this guy quite often. It's that time to let his ass go! Here is my advice on what to do with this guy before you get your emotions caught up.