I have shared some unimaginable accounts of my life and although they hurt me and still play a major role in my life all of the moments weren’t bad. My siblings and I decided to sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve even our brother we were way too excited. We woke up to Read More >

The last time I saw my mother she was laying in a hospital bed hooked up to machines. My aunt had taken my siblings and I to visit her at the hospital, my mother was in a coma for a while but I only remember seeing her once. My aunt told me to give my Read More >

“Can me and the kids come and stay for a while, I think _________ is gonna do something real crazy”. The person on the other end of the phone replied “Let me check with my husband and I’ll call you later”.  I asked my mother where we were going and she said Ohio. This conversation Read More >

“Put on your red dress slip on your high heels and some of that sweet perfume…” Music was playing as we sat at our glass kitchen table. I remember my mother cracking open some crab legs and drinking a Colt 45, you could catch her with a 40oz on any given day. I remember her saying, Read More >

I’m a big girl now! Although I had attended St Bartholomew for preschool, going to kindergarten was a big deal. I would be at the same school as my big brother Van Zile Elementary and I would be able to walk with him in the morning. Kindergarten was only half a day so he would Read More >

“You know that stuff we sale baby girl? If I don’t get it I’ll get sick.” I looked up in my mother’s big brown eyes and didn’t really know that my mother was a crack feign. It’s hard for me to even say it. My mother’s boyfriend was not only her abuser but he was Read More >

There are so many things I’d like to tell you. I mean the biggest accomplishments you seen me make were graduating kindergarten and riding my bike with no training wheels, oh wait you taught me how to tie my shoe and I still remember you teaching me to spell my name. Every BIG moment in Read More >

Maybe the winter was a better season in our life because all of my memories seem to have occurred during the summer and fall. A lot of people say people go crazy when it gets hot out, so maybe all the ammunition my mother’s boyfriend needed was a change of season. I had just learned Read More >

One of the greatest memories I have of my mother is the love she had for her children. I never wanted children; too afraid I would leave them alone in this world. Thankfully God blessed me with a daughter at the same age my mother was when she gave birth to me and my husband Read More >

A year after my mother died my brother and I went to visit the only family we had truly known. The summer of 1992 everything was great, we flew on an airplane for the first time in our lives. Getting off the plane in Detroit was a great feeling I remember my grandma, sister aunt Read More >