CurlyGirl. BigWorld.

Dear World,   I am so sorry for my silence.  This has been an interesting year already.  It has been good with a couple uncomfortable snags but mostly good.  Yay! (Happy Dance) In this post I want to share with you just a few images of some after work play I've managed to sneak in within the first few months of this year.  As you will see, I have been burning up the road and air and I want to share a couple reasons why I have been MIA.     Enjoy!     The first few pics were taken while sightseeing in DC.  While this was not my first visit to the city, it was the first time I made time to see the city beyond work.  It was refreshing to finally see the historic side in addition to great shopping, eating amazing food and experiencing a bit of nightlife.     DC and GEORGETOWN   Of course I am a huge history buff and reformed nerd but who knew that I would ac...

Dear World, I've developed a habit. It is one of the best habits I ever could have developed. It provides so much peace and assurance that I wonder why I hadn't started earlier. I am talking about spending significant time in the mornings developing a relationship with the big man upstairs. Yeah. GOD.  I'm not going to get preachy or run through a long list of religious antecdotes. And for the record, I believe spirituality can encompass religion as well as an appreciation of life, love, purpose, and connection of every thing past and present.  With this in mind, judgment, resentment, divisiveness, discouragement, hypocrisy, negativity do not take up residence in my life. I have no use for it or space. In my mind, these things takes up unnecessary room, time and energy that could be spent productively. In saying all that I am finally at the point where I realize that I do not need all the answers. Some things I will never understand. Some things that happen to or throu...

  Dear World,   Where did the time go? I mean really. I can still remember what I was doing when 2014 made its grand entrance filled with hope, promise and utter excitement.  As time went on, it almost seemed to be overflowing with New York minutes.  Don't get me wrong, there were some great moments that I will treasure forever and thanks to modern technology I have the pictures to prove it.  However along the way the sense of urgency was more pronounced with unfathomable events causing the course to change and a desperate scramble to salvage "the plan".   Yes.  The infamous curly girl plan.  I will talk about that in another post. For me, eventually the year lost steam leaving behind the aftermath of a storm with major clean up necessary.  Although this made good conversation catching up with loved ones during the holidays it also made a great point o...

Dear World, I was in my thoughts today and I thought of HIM. Couldn't express the feelings in a way that made sense so of course you get some quick poetry.  Thanks for allowing me to purge and go about my day which is going great by the way contrary to the thoughts expressed.   Until next time... Curly Girl     I heard a song today And it reminded me of him. The first thing I wanted to do was call- To hear his baritone vibrate through my phone But conversation now seems like a distant memory I remember jokes and debates about the minor things The way his freckles always appear in the summer time. That he always knew just how to touch me. I always felt safe in his arms and believed he felt the love he professed to me. Too bad the major things that always turned out to not be so major, always made him run away. What we had was simply too intense to slow those fast feet and fearful heart...

Dear World,   I'm sure many of you have heard the old Indian tale of the Two Wolves. If you have not the story goes something like this.  An old wise man speaks to his son about the battle that goes on inside of people.  He explains that the battle is between two wolves inside of us.  The first wolf is bad having characteristics of anger, resentment, guilt, and every other negative trait.  The second wolf is good and embodies joy, peace love, truth, etc.  After thinking about the story the son asks the son which one wins to which the old man replies the one that we feed the most.    I share this tale because lately I feel like the individual with two wolves.  Not necessarily wolves battling good or bad but life pursuits. Maybe it is not even two different wolves rather one wolf with two perspectives of life.  Here is an example.  Relatio...

Dear World, Today I feel pretty.  Not just the shallow word used by the nice aunt in the family that makes the best sweet potato pies.  Not the type of pretty that have parents swell with pride when looking at their genetic creation.  It's not even the pretty that gets occasional likes from selfies posted on social networks. Oh no!  It's the type of pretty that when you wake up, you feel like the epitome of everything it means to be a woman pretty.  It’s the type of pretty that has you waking up feeling as if you have a second skin.  This skin has a glow and although you have touched it a thousand times on this day the water from your morning bath permeates every pore and every follicle of hair.  The type of pretty that have you lingering just a few minutes longer savoring the caress as you put on your morning oils and lotions.  The type of pretty that has you touch...

Only three steps away from the crackling fire, I am nestled in an oversized sofa with my favorite cashmere throw.  The candle warmer is working overtime emitting the fragrance of soft powder and jasmine wax purchased at the candle boutique days earlier and the music in the distance is a mix of smooth jazz and oldies.  I peer out the large bay window of the great room at the most picturesque vision. A mountain peak is covered in thick sheets of snow....Screeeeeeeech!!! All of this this would be amazing if it were real. However, the harsh reality is much less entertaining.  I am sitting here at my work desk covered in manila file folders drinking my morning cocoa and wishing this dream was my current situation.  One day it will be. That I am sure of. But right now I feel the itch of another escape surfacing and what is a curly girl to do? Draft my travel itinerary for 2015!!! This itinerary includes everything from tropical beach excursions, exo...