I have been battling extreme exhaustion for the past few days. I came off of an especially tough five-day stretch at the hospital three...

I was at the grocery store recently waiting in line at the pharmacy. The lady in front of me was at the counter waiting for her...

Dear Reader, I am fresh off of a 75-hour stretch of hospital work within the span of five days. I am slowly emerging from my zombie-like...

'I need to be white.' This is what my ultra-cocoa, brown-skinned four-year-old daughter says to me as I’m twisting her thick, curly hair...

Our dreams for our children begin long before they are born. We want to do more than just provide for them, we want to shower them with...

My internal dialogue is not the healthiest. The combination of being a naturally insecure person who was raised by a well-meaning,...

My pastor doesn’t shy away from tackling tough or weighty matters in his sermons. This past Sunday was no different as he zeroed in on...

I’m what’s affectionately known as a compensated introvert. At times I compensate well and at other times I do so poorly but I am almost...

The soundtrack of my early childhood was incredibly violent. I was raised in the ghettos of the Waterhouse district in Kingston, Jamaica....

I once thought that being the smartest person in the room made you the best doctor. After I graduated from residency and experienced...

I didn’t exactly plan to take a hiatus from writing for the past month. It started out as a very busy work stretch at the hospital,...

I have been pondering the Uvalde mass shooting event quite a bit lately. After every mass shooting event, I get quiet and start thinking....

Today we baptized our kids in the Anglican tradition. If anyone had told me that we would be taking this route five years ago I would...

Around 2010 or so, my husband had another major psychiatric episode. We were living in the same household by then but I was away...

Once upon a time in 2007, I met and later married a pastor's son. He was about two years out from a psychotic break and I was not even a...

Remember back in the 1990s when the rampant pedophilia going on in the Catholic church first made headlines and the news was filled with...

Avoidance is like the dessert you promised yourself after your workout but then you end up not working out and then letting yourself have...

When I first found out I was pregnant with a girl, I cried. These were not tears of joy but racking sobs from a place of deep distress. ...

I have really been enjoying Skye Jethani’s new series on his ‘With GOD Daily’ devotional. I just finished up the one titled, ‘Two...

A friend asked me recently when I fell in love with my husband. I honestly didn’t know how to answer. Our courtship was hardly...