Category: Happiness
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My birthday is right around the corner. Birthdays, like the New Year, are cause for reflection. I have decided to share a few life lessons I have learned over the years. 1. There are no short cuts to success. Be it in the gym, classroom, or life – success comes from the good habits you perform…
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#fearless If I have a New Year’s Resolution – it is to be fearless. I have always erred on the side of caution. I am willing to take the risk. First, I will not be afraid to write my true feelings on this blog. It is the reason I started it. I started a relationship…
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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 –…
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“Friend, there will never be a friend As dear to me as You There will be another closer than a brother Friend, always worth the wait Faithful as the day You say we are friend” Israel Houghton I am writing this missing a dear friend of mine. She was actually my very best friend in…
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I would love to live in the moment but at any given moment in time so many thoughts are traversing my brain. How will I accomplish my goals? Has too much time passed? What if this happens? What if that happens? Do I look cute in these jeans? A million little things. I would love to…
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That title will make sense if you continue reading. I had an epiphany during a girls weekend to celebrate my best friend's birthday. I have finally accepted that I am a full grown woman. Technically, I have been 'grown' for over a decade. Inside, however, I still felt like a 13 year old still trying…
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I had a funny dream. I will tell you at the end. Of late, I have been thinking a lot. It is the same old rerun of mistakes I have made and what I could have done different. It’s like the old soap opera that you watch when nothing else is on tv. You can…
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I am not as obsessive with my scale nowadays. I get on it one every other day and not everyday :-).Seriously folks. For a few weeks, I had been gaining and losing the same 3 lbs. It was starting to get on my freaking nerves.I felt myself getting close the that cliff. That edge that…
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Interesting topic suggestion brought up by my very own brother. We shall revisit the hair debate again. The braiding, straightening and adorning of hair is all to make one feel good about oneself and/or to attract another person. I mean can we keep it real. So, what decision is best when the two goals become…
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I have focused mainly of nutrition, health and weight loss in the past few weeks here on Talulazoeapple.com. Then I happened upon this video of Sheryl Underwood, co-host on The Talk, making some very disparaging remarks about natural, afro hair. Being someone with natural hair, I was near tears watching her spew such hurtful, self-hating…