Blessed & Curvy

We've all heard the saying "there's sunshine after the rain," but what does it truly mean to weather life's storms and emerge stronger? Life has an uncanny way of testing our resolve, throwing unexpected challenges our way when we least expect them. Yet, it's precisely these moments of difficulty that often lead to our most significant personal growth.  The Nature of Life's Storms Just like the weather, life operates in cycles. Dark clouds gather, rain pours down, and sometimes it feels like the storm will never end. These storms come in various forms – career setbacks, relationship struggles, health challenges, or personal losses. Each droplet of rain represents a moment of doubt, fear, or uncertainty.  Understanding the Purpose of Rain Rain, despite its gloomy appearance, serves a vital purpose in nature. It nourishes the soil, helps plants grow, and cleanses the environment. Similarly, our personal storms often serve as catalysts for growth. They test o...

During the pandemic I have heard from so many people going through life's struggles. I wanted to revisit my fifth book  There Is Sunshine After the Rain   that I wrote that is a memoir that covers the darkest moments in my life and the paths that I had to travel to get to my sunshine. This book has poetry sprinkled throughout the chapters because it was my first love. Since I was a child I was writing my feelings that I hadn't even understood the meaning of what was going on. From having the first crush, facing death, and the stages that life had planned that I had to navigate through. A lot of times we get caught up being in our personal storms that we feel like the world has let us down. We don't see the end in sight and unfortunately there are some who decide to take matters into their own hands and commit suicide. Not realizing that there is support no matter if it is friends, family, or support groups.  We forget that there will be sunshine after the rain and we...

Book Synopsis :      Eating the Forbidden Fruit is a gritty fiction novel loosely based on true events in author Roland Sato Page ’s life. The newcomer author delivers a personal journey into his rise and demise as a St. Louis Police Officer. He takes the readers on a roller coaster ride of good ole family memories to the nightmarish reality of being a police officer indicted on federal crimes. During his trial, he wrote memoirs as a testimonial of redemption. Roland’s case stems from the conflict of his childhood affiliation and his oath to uphold the law. What is certain is one can't run from sin for karma is much faster. Book Excerpts I left on a Thursday after telling my father to “Fuck off!” Saturday my heart was ripped apart when I was told he died. Wife-”Don’t stay with me for the kids! You can just leave if that’s the reason.” Me-”Don’t you get it? You and the kids are a gift that cannot be replaced. The fact you birth my boy makes me lov...

Synopsis: Prison is like chess. The prisoners and officers are simply pieces on the board, waiting to be manipulated. But one corrections officer refuses to be anyone's pawn.   Read the Excerpt Now.  I Will Not Be a Pawn, a prison corrections officer provides a unique perspective on the complex relationships and hierarchies of the prison system and how life behind bars has both changed and stayed the same. Joseph S. Spicer Sr. details his life both within the Department of Corrections and outside. His memoirs  Bio: Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan worked for twenty- nine years for the Michigan Department of Corrections and was named regional corrections officer of the year in 1995 and retired from the Michigan Department of Corrections in April of 2015.Attended Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan and received a full scholarship to college and played basketball at Lake Superior State University. A stand-out hig...

Reaching Out  Recently I been having difficulty posting on my blog. Right after Mother's Day my desire was diminished to sit down and share my thoughts with anyone. I should be celebrating the woman who was my Mother. Instead it was if someone has snatched the scab off and I had to deal with the feelings. The feelings of not being able to call her to tell her about my new job. To share about my recent  accomplishments. To call her and gossip about my siblings and hear her advice. There was something that I felt others whose Mother had passed where sharing on Facebook a grieving for your best friend their Mom. What I decided to is take care of myself. Write down everything that I want to do,celebrate life, and do them.  Take myself out to dinner, go for a long ride, purchase only items that I needed and not what I wanted.  Make sure that I don't go binge shopping to make my sadness go away. I write down a list of items to buy. One item is alarming...

Honey did you know her? Being that it is Women’s History Month I went researching who made impact on women’s life. I found this woman by the name of Isabella Baumfree . Reading about how she was a slave at a young age, sold to different slave owners four times before she fell in love with Robert. She and he were prohibited from seeing each other because Bell’s owner didn’t want his slaves to have children with slaves he didn’t own. He wouldn’t have rights to those children to be sold. Robert would continue sneaking to see her until he was savagely beat and she never saw him again. She later married an older slave name Thomas and she had five children by him. There are conflicting stories that the older slave that she married wasn’t the father to one child. Her life hasn’t even reached where we know her yet but in such a short time of reading about her early years I am in awe because she endured so much. I can’t imagine as a child being sold into slavery or to be se...