Welcome to part 2 of my Africa Series and for reading about how being pregnant in Africa continues to teach me about motherhood. Prior to living in Kenya, I had heard the phrase, “It takes a village to raise a...
I didn’t realize my son was biracial until he was 20 months old and my husband said it out loud. I am a U.S. citizen, who grew up listening to *NSYNC and Britney Spears while watching programs like Saved...
Just before Mother's Day, one year ago, I got a devastating call... My mother had been involved in a motorcycle accident and was in the ICU. I tried to call her wife, but my sister answered. My step mama...
We, as a collective American society, sometime feel as if segregation was such a long time ago and a thing of the past. Then, I look at the story of a woman like my mother-in-law and remember how recent...
I grew up in a family where art was loved and encouraged. My husband is a Cincinnati native, a graduate of SCPA, and a well-known actor across the greater Cincinnati area. We actually met at Falcon Theatre in Newport,...
I’ve always wanted to teach in an inner-city school. The second I got in front of my classroom, something amazing happened. Those kids, they weren’t just ‘the kids.’ They were now ‘my kids’. Regardless of how we look different,...
Cincinnati is an amazingly weird city. Yep, that's right, it is weird. I never realized how weird it was until I started meeting people from other cities. When people ask you where are you from? They don't expect "Cincinnati"...