Today is my birthday. Yeah me! However, it is not just an ordinary birthday, but my 29th which means next year this time I will be, you guessed it - 30! Now, attaining this milestone brings with it a whole lot of stress, anxiety and fear for some people. Some start to think about their …
Category: Personal Growth
Character and Reputation
So I am an avid fan of Donald Miller, I mean who isn't. Anyways, I visited his blog today and read what he had to say regarding character and reputation. As Miller said (or wrote): People don’t judge who we are, they judge who we’ve led them to believe we are.The more time and effort …
Stereotypes: Fact or Fiction
How do we distinguish between what is true or characteristic about a people or a culture, and what is a stereotype? This is a question that I ask myself periodically as I catch myself and others labeling an entire people group, nationality, gender or social class on account of a few interactions with people from …
Just A Lil’ R.E.S.P.E.C.T
Aretha Franklin might have made the word respect popular but it had been around well before she came on the scene. As the song suggests, respect is something that everybody craves and longs for, something that people will go at great lengths to get. Often people try to get respect by putting others in their …
The Train Station
In effort to say all of the things that I wish to say, that I cannot say on leaving and cleaving, I have crafted a short story. Though it is fictional, it is a representation of some themes present in my life and the new journey of life and love that I find myself on. …
Ebony Johanna 