• Breaking Barriers

    Beauty in the Pivot

    This morning I got up and I went back and forth on whether I should go for a bike ride. I hadn’t ridden my bike all week. I truly didn’t feel like going, but something told me to push anyway. My initial thought was it was too late in the day and it would therefore be too hot to go (yes, it’s in the 80s here, sigh), since I didn’t get up early and go, but I went anyway. Well of course when I went outside and the sun was beaming on me, I said to myself, “was this a good idea?” Lol. Needless to say I went on riding…

  • Breaking Barriers

    He’s a Lie!

    I recently purchased a bike and for the past week, I have been diligent about going riding. If you are familiar with my blog posts, you should remember my bike incidents (yes, that’s plural). There was that time when I decided to go bike riding on my birthday and had a head-on head collision with a non-moving car. And then there was that time when I fell off a stationary bike (smh). Needless to say, I have some reasonable fears with bike riding. LOL. Do you know what my response was to this fear? Yep, I brought a bike. I cannot get more comfortable and confident about riding a bike…

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    The Not So New Normal

    Covid-19 this. Covid-19 that. Now Covid-19 everywhere. We cannot seem to get rid of this disease. It has touched us all in some form or fashion. Something that presumably started in China has now been a part of our lives for close to 6-months. To make matters worse, Covid-19 won’t be going away any time soon. Many of us have become acclimated to many precautions. Most of these precautions are being presented primarily throughgovernment officials. The Center for Disease Control (CDC)continues to promote handwashing, the usage of hand sanitizer, and social distancing. Stores, restaurants, and churches have implemented actions to promote the safety of everyone,including wearing a face mask. Some of…

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    SURRENDER: My Life is Not My Own

    I’ve been going back and forth about what I should post about next. I started last week thinking, I should post something for my birthday, perhaps I can talk about what I’ve learned in the past year. Or maybe I can share some golden nuggets I’ve gathered through the years. Every time I sat down to think about it, I came up with nothing. Sigh. I’ve been doing #tbt on my social media (shameless plug: follow me if you aren’t already, a link to my social media pages are at the bottom of this page) every week leading up to my birthday and this week I decided to share one…