Love is hard to come by, at least for me. I am highly sensitive and naive of how manipulative it can be. In my on chaotic island of a mind, I believe there is a time in place for appreciation and be adored. A place where I can freely speak my truth to someone who … Continue reading Falling in Love
Amazingly enough in October, not having the habit of opening my blinds to know the appropriate clothes to wear in this spontaneous fall weather. I get a wonderful Sunday morning call informing the horror that was happening outside. And you guys! It was snowing in October! Freaking October, I am a black woman who somehow … Continue reading First Snow Fall
I woke up feeling shitty, not physically though. More so as a person, woke up feeling a shitty person. School I trashed, work I am mediocre and love, he doesn’t have ownership of the relationship. I woke up kinda late...not so late...but late enough to shower and make it in time to be late and … Continue reading Depressive Thoughts One
The younger version of myself would be disappointed in the person I have become. Back then I hungered to prove to the world, that I may not fit in as a refugee but my life was so eccentric, or so I said. I created journeys that were un-ordinary as the next one, to anyone who … Continue reading Contentment in Failure is the Absence of Bravery
As I began to contemplate what I would write about in this site, why I was making it and who it would it speak to. I wanted to write a blog but I didn’t believe that I had the capability of encompassing all the things that make my world spin. How organized should I be, … Continue reading It Begins With Me
Hello all, My name for now is my alter ego Alex, I am a Black woman in my twenties living in Midwest America learning to love and live. I am an African immigrant from Rwanda but I have lived in Zambia for a large portion of my life. Being in the USA with new identities; … Continue reading Before You Begin
