01 Apr 2012 No Comments
Let me start with the excerpt from Meredith Cohn’s article in the Baltimore Sun on Saturday, March 31, 2012. “African American women in six U.S. cities are becoming infected with HIV at a rate five times the national average for black women, and closer to the rates of some African countries, according to a new [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Uncategorized
21 Jan 2012 No Comments
I’ve spent a lovely chunk of time today looking at websites related to black women. Theses weren’t the typical hair or style or “all you need to know” websites out there about us. These were fun and creative and alternative. It was time well spent. Since some of you ask what I read online, I [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Uncategorized
11 Jan 2012 No Comments
Tomorrow I am doing something I’ve never done before. It is exciting, humbling, and filled with possibility. While I move between moments of pure joy and excitement, I also have moments of wanting to run for the hills and hide under the couch. Regardless of my current feelings of doubt and fear, I am not [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Risk
03 Jan 2012 No Comments
Yesterday I began re-reading Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. When I took it off the shelf, I intended to identify passages I thought would be useful to one of my coaching clients. However, as irony would prefer it, I opened the book to a section that offered a bit of valuable and timely learning for [...]
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12 Dec 2011 No Comments
Some years ago, I was assigned to do a bit of work in Hilo, on the Big Island. It was my first trip to Hawaii and I was nothing less than thrilled to be going to a tropical paradise. During my lay over in Maui, I walked to the beach, dumped my computer bag in [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Risk
21 Sep 2011 No Comments
Today is my birthday and it’s been quite day. People who loved me called. And my email was rich with kind words. Texts and Facebook were plentiful. There was an abundance of birthday songs and well wishes. In addition to each of those, I woke up to day five of my seven day Nia Blue [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Kindness, Nia, Uncategorized
10 Sep 2011 No Comments
This is the third version of this post that was originally going to be about the start of a song I heard in the car. It turned out to be a remake gone wrong and it felt like I’d been tricked. I really liked the song and turned it up to sing along. Then, the [...]
by BlackGirlOrganic in Uncategorized
I am the founder and primary writer for Black Girl Organic. I’ve been writing since I can remember reading and having an audience to listen to my work.
I am a grown up little black girl from the Southside of Chicago, walking through the world being my most organic version of me.