I am not one to take things personally most days. Even when people are intentionally mean to me I usually brush off as "oh it's probably nothing personal." I honestly don't see the value in being super sensitive. It's just not in my bones. Besides most people are so busy doing their own thing that … Continue reading The Subtle Evil of Cambria Default Font {and other things I think exist just to be annoying}
There is a song by Bill Withers titled "I Can't Write Left-Handed." It's about a man who returns from the Vietnam war and due to his injuries he now is left handed because his right hand has been so severely injured that he can no longer write with it. It is a very deep, moving, … Continue reading I Can’t Drive Left- Footed [and other things I’m Incapable of Doing Successfully]
It's halfway through February (it was half way through February when I started writing this) and every one knows what month February is....... Heart Disease Awareness Month!!!!!! And of course Black History Month. In my soon to be 22 years of life I can pretty much sum up what each BHM has been to me: … Continue reading An out of control fountain spewing of Black Historical Facts [and how it has nothing to do with black history]
As a 20-something with a smartphone, I of course was glued to both my TV and my Twitter feed for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. There were fifty million things to comment on and talk about. So many things that complex words escaped me when I was trying to find a way to describe the … Continue reading Letters to the Haters encrusted in Gold {My take on the Grammy’s}
As an "official in my own mind but not publicly acknowledged" blogger I am always looking for different types of inspiration and different ways to expand the topics I talk about and the blog as a whole. So I've found a new mode of getting things out to the blogsophere: through the Word. I know, … Continue reading The Story of David [not the one with Goliath, the other one]
What inspired this post was all the stuff we, as humans, do either in reality or in our heads that we hope no one sees or knows about. But not weird, shiesty illegal stuff. I'm just talking about every day small stuff we do. One of the essential factors of being a socially functional human … Continue reading Disclose, Expose or Make Sure No One Knows?
After calling my mom for a half hour with no reply so instead of thinking she might be just be busy or not near her phone, I begin to assume something horrible had happened. My mind went from "Oh mane she didn't hear her phone ring" to " oh dear God, why'd you take my … Continue reading A Bucket of Irrational Fears [A Few Rational Conclusions I Jump to Irrationally]
As you all know I'm from New Orleans. For about four years after the storm telling people that I was from New Orleans was always followed by some variation of the question, "Well how did you fair in the storm?" The storm of course being Hurricane Katrina, a big ol' storm that basically raped the … Continue reading Skeletons in the closet [why I never talk about Hurricane Katrina]
A very good friend of mine, whom I consider a brother, loves the movie "V for Vendetta." He might very well think it is one of the greatest movies ever. One random day a while ago I decided to finally watch the movie with him, and after sitting through the majority of the movie-after discovering … Continue reading The Guy Fawkes Mask Creeps Me Out {How I haven’t been a very good Occupy Wall Street supporter}
B.Alexandra's Cosmos 