I am ready for love
Why are you hiding from me
I’d quickly give my freedom
To be held in your captivity

~ India Arie

Song of Solomon is a book of the original Hebrew Bible.  The book is a love song…speaking of the love between a man and a woman.  Solomon repeats this several times throughout the Song of Songs…

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Isn’t this how it always starts?  So hopeful, so excited about what could be between the two of us.  But, too often,  we find ourselves caught up in the potential, rather than observing and acting on the reality that is before us.

Maybe it is just me.  Read more...

it used to be so hard to think about my life without you.  i even shed a tear at the thought…but then one day…you just didn’t matter anymore. don’t you remember how much you loved him/her, and how you always thought that it would be this way.  our kisses were phenomenal, when we touched it was magical, when we laughed–it hurt.  Read more...

Relationship dating for the long haul requires a level of maturity where one is ready to accept responsibility. Many couples that are very suited to each other often back out of a relationship because of simple issues that could have been addressed at a moment when they were both prepared to face it.  Read more...

Let’s just say that Chrisette inspired me.

I have to admit it, I have been wasting my time…and maybe he would say the same thing.

Have you ever met someone that you’d never–not in a million years–think that you would click–let alone that they would be someone that you’d end up in this weird back and forth relationship? (And I use the term relationship loosely…)  Read more...

Really?

I can’t tell.

See, I have the been burdened by this for a while, so I am going to go ahead and let us all work this one out.

Before you can call me bitter, or rejected…just hear me out.  Read more...

say you love me…or your hate me.

say you like me…do you want to date me?

say it’s over–but it never began…

say its over–just tell me its the end?!

say we’re friends…or enemies

say we’re lovers…are you that into me?

say we’ll never…be anything

just say something…because i can’t let it be

No I’m not referring to the movie starring Keenan Ivory Wayans…

I’m talking about these punk azz #$%&*@! that are creeping around with men but claim not to be gay.   They call it being on the DL, Down Low, or what have you…I call it a low down dirty shame!  Read more...

yes, i am going there.

while i appreciate the concept of a woman being “intimidating” because she is bold, confident, accomplished, educated, or even all four, i do not understand women who seem to lack the ability to be the partner that we are called to be.

oops! was that too church-y for some of you…oh well.  let’s face the facts, God made adam and then presented eve as his “helpmeet.” don’t get mad at me, its all right there in genesis…  Read more...

everyone reading this has been through the following scenario(or have you?):

you like him/her…you wonder if he/she likes you…you assume that he/she should know…you grow disinterested because he/she never showed signs of “like” (and you are absolutely positive that you did everything necessary)…you eventually find out that the feeling was mutual.

confusion sets in…

or has this only happened to a couple of people and is the exception, not the rule? Well, allow us to  investigate, beginning with a classic “case” of like gone wrong…  Read more...