A Word on Abuse

In 2014,  news broke out about football player, Ray Rice and an altercation he had with his fiancé then wife, Janay in an Atlantic City elevator.  In a video that was released, we witness Rice strike Janay with a punch to the face that knocked her out unconscious.  He is then seen dragging her body …

I Do Take Thee and Thy Little Family: Marriage to a Single Mom, an Interview

Society seems to make dating a single parent, especially a single mother, as appealing as going to get a root canal. Marrying one? Let's not go there. Society's feelings about single mothers actually considering dating? Words like "selfish, wrong priorities, ungrounded" get tossed around. This realization of how society feels became, of course, extremely loud …

Second Time Around: Finding Love Again, an Interview

Zora* is a friend that I have known about 20 some years now.  Her marriage to her first husband dissolved almost 13 years ago.  However, she was blessed to find love once again with Langston*, and they have now been married going on eight years. Confession: these past few years, I have gone to Zora …