Living While Black – Even after the publication of Between the World and Me

Several years ago, in 2016, after Philando Castile was murdered by police in St. Paul, Minnesota, I wrote an essay further inspired by Between the World and Me by Ta- Nehisi Coates. It was so raw, real, revealing too much of my gut that I opted not to put it here, out into the world. …

Living Vicariously Through My Character

In the Author's Note of my books in "The Boutique Series", I point out just how Eden and her fashion shop, Josi's Boutique, came about:   Given my love for fashion and makeup, my high-styled life lived vicariously through Billy Eikhorn of Judith Krantz’s Scruples saga, and the long, unfulfilled desire to run my own …