Life lately… been a whole series of lessons. Not the kind you read about — the kind you live through. The kind that make you stop, breathe, and look yourself in the mirror like, “Damn… this is who I’m becoming.” I had to learn to see myself. Not the version that smiles through it, not the version that keeps it all together — but the one underneath it all. The one who’s tired, but still gets up. The one who still believes. The one who still loves with an open heart, even when it’s been broken....

🎶  When the Beat Finds You I’ve been thinking about a line from one of my favorite movies — Brown Sugar. “The perfect verse over a tight...

When I was a little girl I would play chess with my dad … we used to sit in our living room in these two chairs facing each other and...