When you barbecue, most times, you prep the meat by seasoning it and letting it marinate. You are careful to get the fire just right and you watch it to be sure the food won’t burn. When baking a cake from scratch, you prepare by allowing the eggs and butter to sit out of the refrigerator until they are room temperature. You Alright…I’m not just trying to make you hungry (although I probably did myself in at 10:08 p.m.), but I’m trying to get you focused on preparation. Prep

The other day, I walked into the Starbucks where I was previously employed cause…you know… “Sometimes you wanna go, where everybody knows your name……” Uh…yeah…anyhoo…when I walked in, I saw my former manager putting up a display so I said “hey…how are you?”(whenever I go in during one of her shifts, we chat). She looks up and responds with, “Hello Alecia, how are you? Oh my gosh! You have lost weight! I mean, you look good but you have really lost weight.” I reply with, “real

There WILL be MANY times when you feel alone…you know…like your friends “ain’t yo friends.”  Like…your phone must be broken because you paid the bill but nobody calls or texts you back…or first.  It’s GONNA happen!  It’s happening NOW!  The thing is, you can’t possibly be alone because Jesus promised, in Hebrews 13:5, that He would never leave nor forsake you.  That means He’s ALWAYS there!  And remember, when God hand picks you, everybody won’t be readily available to you at

I….am a gift.  One that only God could give and only heaven could deliver.  I mean that…in the most humble, non-self centered, grateful sort of way. My mother, before I was born, suffered a tubular pregnancy that caused her tube to rupture and almost killed her.  It led the doctors to diagnose that she would never be able to birth another child.  After my parents were married, they wanted more children in spite of the doctor’s report.  I’m told, by my mother, that she declare

The ideal woman…right?!?  I mean you just can’t get much better…right?!?  The Bible says that “her price is far above rubies.”  But even before rubies are sold, they must be polished, cleaned, heated, and so on. I’ve met women or seen many bios, profiles, of women who aspire to be or proclaim to be the perfect Proverbs 31 woman waiting for her Boaz to come rescue her from this cold, cruel world.  I’m sure that’s a good thing…I guess.  I’ve never been one to dwell much on bein

Anyhoo…I’ve recently been on a journey.  No, I didn’t leave the country, state, or even the city…but I left my comfort zone.  If you know me then you know I like being where I like to be. Well, after 4.5 years, in March of 2013, I decided, (well not really me…Jesus decided it for me…I mean who just leaves their job after that long voluntarily without going somewhere seemingly better?!?  That’s all I’m sayin….) to leave my job.  I was going back to school to work in the health

Had an “AH HA” moment the other day…I mean it’s a given but I had to really catch it…people will work for what they want.  If you want it, you will make it happen.  I had to learn that for myself because I would often wonder why things wouldn’t go the way I planned or wanted them to go.  I had to stop and think, “what did I do to make it happen?”  In some cases, I didn’t do all that I could have.  Lately, I have been figuring out what I REALLY want in my life and I have begun