Super Nerdy Church Girl

A little nerdy, a little churchy, and a little flirty

Category: Dating

  • At age 30, I was 10 months into my new city of Dallas, Texas. I would be starting grad school in a few months. I spent my Saturday mornings floating in my community pool chasing clouds. Everything around me felt like spring – fresh and new. Being single was an asset providing the freedom of…

  • I don’t want a dog. I want a husband. There I said it. I am single and I bought a house but I refuse to buy a dog, or a cat, or freaking fish. Thank you to all of you well meaning friends but I don’t want animal companionship. There is absolutely nothing wrong with…

  • LHHNY’s Cyn Santana and the Afro Latina Identity
  • Permission to Put You First

    Ever hear yourself talking and realize you need to take your own advice? I was being interviewed by hosts Denise Cole Hill and Wilson Murkinson for Nuu Beats Radio on Saturday. I start saying something like, “you have to give yourself permission to go for what you really want, not for what you think you…

  • When I was a young girl, I wondered how my life would turn out when I became an adult. I grew up on Chicago's gritty west-side. I had seen many real life Unsung stars. Youth, beauty, talent derailed by drugs, violence and love gone wrong. I did not know how I would make it out…

  • Today is a sunny, beautifully clear Friday. I am sitting at my cubicle doing what I love – writing. Of course, I am at the j-o-b on my lunch break cranking out a post before time to start again. Is not the intro a better opening – more positive? It is all about perspective. I…

  • If you have been a reader of this blog, then you know how much of a sucker I am for a sincere compliment. I love to hear great things about myself. I love putting on a flattering dress and walking that I walk. lol I am unabashed. I have been told that I am vain.…

  • What is hate? Thinking of the word makes me cringe.  According to Merriam-Webster online, hate is 'a very strong feeling of dislike.' The full definition:  "a :  intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury  b :  extreme dislike or antipathy : loathing." Source Hate is what causes people to hurt others. It has many expressions –…

  • Sooooooo, I am over at Brown Sista and there is a post entitled, "Why Are Women So Pressed to be Married?" Talk about loaded words, ma. You have got marriage and pressed and why all in one sentence?? lol I will summarize it for you, if you do not have time to read it. The…

  • Why is there pretense? This ever shielding wall that protects and keeps out the very thing you really want to let in. Too deep? It's Sunday night. There is a cool breeze blowing through my open balcony as I type. Dang it, I'm just deep! lol I am so guilty of this so I cannot…