Relationships - Marleyisms

Parenting

When Hard Times Send Your Adult Children Back Home, Be Kind To Your Neighbors

Adult children returning home because of hardships due to the pandemic can wreak havoc on innocent neighbors.

Equality

I Can’t Get With Loving One Another

Because most white folks love themselves too much

Racism

Stop Apologizing To Random Black People To Absolve Your White Guilt

White people need to apologize to the people they’ve actually harmed instead.

Affairs

When The Children Came, The Love Went

Watching my neighbors grow apart after the children arrive from my kitchen window.

Life Lessons

Making Time For Strangers In The Age of Covid

Although I wanted to spend the day fishing alone, my new friend for the day Mr. Alex, had other plans.

White Sup

Dear White Supremacy, I Want A Divorce

On the grounds of physical, emotional, verbal, abuse and neglect, financial abuse, withholding of affection, AND irreconcilable…

Race

America Is The Domestic Abuser Black Folks Can’t Escape

How can you escape your abuser when they control every means of escape?

Racism

Brown Is Not A Color of The Rainbow

It’s so disrespectful to not see or acknowledge our different skin tones and ethnic origins. It’s okay to see color.

Covid 19

It’s Time To Check In: How Are You All Doing?

I’m physically an emotionally exhausted. How are you coping with this new way of life?

Covid 19

Your Mother Has A Fever: The Nursing Home Call No One Wants To Receive

For people with elderly mentally-ill family members in long-term care facilities, Covid-19 can be extremely cruel.

Women

What The World Tells Me About Being A Woman

Being a woman is filled with unrealistic and unattainable expectations that are nearly impossible to achieve, but we still try to anyway.

Kobe Bryant

Struggling With Complex Legacies Of Famous Men

No one alive can always be an angel.

Love

You Could Have A Full Pitcher If You Let Go Of The Empty One

On staying in relationships with people who don’t fill us up.

Friendship

Stop Forcing Your Partner To Be Friends With Your Friends

Just because they love you doesn’t mean they will love your friends. An essay on same-sex relationships and forced outside friendships.

Life

Why Respect Should Be Earned, Not Given

The admiration isn’t always mutual. An essay on why we shouldn’t casually give people respect they did not earn.

Love

Your Complacency Steals Your Best From Me

A poem about how complacency impacts our lives. A poem about how complacency in our public and private lives impacts us.

Racism

Nothing Highlights The True Character of a Person Like a Hardship

Wanna see the true character of a person? Watch how they react when hardship comes their way. This essay is about hardships and sustaining relationships through them.

Relationships

Why Are There So Many Single, Retired, Lonely Men?

There are lots of lonely middle-aged men seeking companionship in the world. This year I decided to stay stateside to bring in the New Year and my birthday. I figured it’s a perfect time to take a short road trip to explore a new part of the state I’ve never been to before…

Family

Don’t Have Kids If You Can’t Afford Them

How your little bundles of joy easily become someone else’s burden when adult children fail to plan for their child rearing needs. Having kids is easy. Caring for them is a different story. Don’t have kids unless you can care for them.

Mental Illness

Donald Trump Reminds Me of My Father, And It Makes Me Sad

Today, something hit me after reading a brilliant, yet sad essay by a clinician sound the alarm about our Emperor Without Clothes. Dr…

Divorce

Is It Love That You’re Feeling, or Poverty That You’re Fearing

Fear of poverty, not love, keeps many of us together

Family

What Must It Be Like to Have a Love Supreme

Watching the funeral services of President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral on yesterday, I great appreciated how his family…

Family

The Real Reason His Mama May Be Happy to See You

And it’s not the reason you think it is, so get over yourself.

Relationships

I Chose Me

When a woman’s fed up, there ain’t much you can do about it. For each time he dropped his dirty laundry on the floor after I’d take my time to clean the entire house. For every time I had surgery and he dropped me at the hospital to go work, despite having…

Domestic Violence

Why Sheltered Little Girls Can Make Terrible Adult Girlfriends

Your sheltered, spoiled little princess could grow up to become some man’s nightmare. Sometimes, girlfriends expect too much from their boyfriends.