The love that you and your boyfriend or fiance once had has ran it's course. You are ready to just move on and to just put the past behind you. The chapter that was still be written in the book of y'all relationship has now ended, however the relationship with his mother still seems to be clinging on. Ending things with him and his mother can have you at cross roads. Here are a few reasons why she still wants you around and in her life....

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.