Author Archives: MoDo

Everyone knows I work in a healthcare clinic setting. Every day I walk in I am scared. I keep hearing the phrase “front line staff are so brave”. We are scared too. We go because this is what we signed up for. So please STAY HOME to protect us if you can. I have theContinue reading “Close Your Doors”

This is my sister Mykesha! She has ZERO qualms about bailing when she is not in the mood. I on the other hand will sit and plan an event knowing my life is straight looking like the last days. This year has forced me to sit my butt down even when I wanted to sayContinue reading “When No Means Yes”

Confession. I didn’t love my house at first sight. It was the last house we saw after a 7 house all day tour with our realtor and two children under 5. We had already been looking for nearly 6 months, been saving for 3 years, lost 2 houses in the process, and our lease wasContinue reading “When Things Fall Apart”

We were parked in his red honda down the block from my house; 16; naive; and trying to hold on to the last 15 minutes before my curfew when I blurted out “I love you” for the first time to @blackjdm2010 . He got real quiet. He just looked at me. Smiled. And drove meContinue reading “I’m sure”

Exhausted. Just straight tired and unsure of a lot right now. I’m sure I’m not alone. Today I have felt quite defeated. Frozen. It’s taken me half an hour to open a chart at work. Fatigued. I had to wake Journey up 4x today. I would literally move her from room to room in aContinue reading “And that’s ok”

Frozen is such a POWERFUL movie about sisterhood. This is after watching it maybe 18 times this week after Journey battled a really bad virus that led to steroids and a nebulizer. Somehow this movie was the only way she would take the treatment without crying in the beginning. So now I can’t hear DoContinue reading “Small but mighty”

Reminder: You don’t need a breakdown to be brought up! I’ve been guilty of waiting to reach out to people until a tragedy strikes or they break or they ghost the world and I have to send my soul as a search crew to find them. And I’ve been neglected quite too often because…well…”I’m theContinue reading “The Before”

The concept of being alone terrifies me if I am 100% completely honest. I’ve never enjoyed solitude without exhaustion attached. Growing up I was constantly surrounded by love and affection, but now that I look back I think I was more in love with the attention than the love part of it. My dad wasContinue reading “Party of 1”

Sometimes saying goodbye to your old self is the hardest part of stepping into your purpose. For me allowing others to grieve my old space in their lives is equally challenging. I fall back into smiling through conversations that really hurt me. Saying yes to things I no longer enjoy. Making jokes I find hurtfulContinue reading “Hello, It’s Me”

I was blessed to grow up in an extremely supportive community. I had a large family and though we had our internal family dynamics we practiced the habit of showing up for each other. We still do to this day. I could have a screaming match with my sister, which isn’t something unrealistic (lol) andContinue reading “Say It Quiet For The People In The Front”