Blessed & Curvy

Times have changed from Helen Reddy singing I Am Woman Hear Me Roar ! Women are working in Corporate America, some are the breadwinners for their homes  and the men are stay at home dads. There are more conferences to attend to inspire  the women on how to be heard, to be taken seriously and to not have to sleep our way up the ladder. I attended a workshop and the guest speaker said have you ever been in a room and  there's a discussion where you know the solution but no one hears you? Yes!  Then five minutes later a male coworker paraphrases what you said and everyone hears them? Yes!  Do you feel invisible? The women young and old responded. YES!   In the year 2019 we still have women getting paid less than their male counterparts.  You have more and more women coming out and saying that they were sexually harassed,  sexually assaulted, and were told that they can only move up if they accept advances from males  who...

My Purpose As a young girl you play with dolls You are the Momma and your dolls your children You have crushes on the little boy next to you You put a pillow under your top and play like you’re having a baby As you mature you have boyfriends Some go to proms Some have arranged marriages Some have relationships where the man does propose You marry The pressure is on for when you are going to have children Is that your purpose to be a wife and a mother? Some never want to have children Some find themselves in situations where they have children and give up the right As a woman you have to compete in a man's world, still be the sexy wife, and mother. What about the woman who isn't married Does society dictate what her purpose should be? Reading magazines, watching the news, and speaking with other women there are mixed emotions. 1.       There are more women CEO's now more th...

I try not to ever get political when it comes to my blog but.... Here is a topic that I have to vent. The year is 2019 and now we are going to have men decide what women can do with their bodies AGAIN. Alabama stated that they were going to reverse their law on abortion. That anyone that is found to have perform an abortion will be sentenced to 99 years in prison. So many emotions are going through my head that I want to scream! If I a woman or child who was sexually assaulted had gotten pregnant by her attacker that she would have to have the child because it wasn't the child's fault, they are saying that from the moment of conception the woman's rights stops, no matter how traumatic it is going to be for her, that her voice means nothing! Do you know what this means? Before Roe vs. Wade there were women who were impregnated and decided that they didn't want to have the child they went to someone who wasn't not medically licensed within the sta...

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...