Just Say, “No.”: Boundaries as a Form of Self-Care
Recently, I published a book, The First Lady: African American Pastors’ Wives in Their Own Voices, and I was having…
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What Oprah’s Golden Globe Speech Teaches Us About Speaking Life!
On this past Sunday evening, I was finishing up my syllabi for the semester and engaged in a couple of…
Living Life with Boundaries
Happy New Year Speak Lifers! I have a confession. Since Thanksgiving, I’ve been off the wagon…the food wagon that is.…
Surviving on the Broken Pieces of Life
In the last few days of 2017, its always good to reflect on everything we experienced and accomplished throughout the…
Exteriors, Part II: The Pastor’s Wife as a Fashionista
This post was originally posted March 8, 2011 on a blog I participated with other pastors’ wives about being a…
Exteriors, Part I: The Pastor’s Wife, The African American Church, and Natural Hair
This post was originally posted February 22, 2011 on a blog I participated with other pastors’ wives about being a…
Just Do You!
A few months ago, I was invited to speak at a women’s conference. I was fascinated by the concept the…