In True Reina Fashion: 15 Weird Facts About Myself
Because I am who I am, I end up having a million and one misadventures, and end up doing everything in true "Reina" fashion. What is true...
3 Lies I Tell Myself on a Daily Basis and 3 Truths I Use to Combat Them
LIE: You're Ugly I've thought this for as long as I can remember. I've written sappy Facebook posts about it, and even touched on it in...
Redefining Faith as an Adult
We've all been here. We move out of our parent's house, go into the workforce, go to college, and from then on we have to ask ourselves:...
SENIOR PHOTOS!
This will sound uber cheesy, but there's nothing that makes me happier than to see people I know doing great things. My parents ask often...
Victory Lap: The Strengths and Struggles of Super Senior Status
Yesterday marked my last first day of school as an undergraduate when really I should be starting my first first day of school as a...
Satisfaction in Solitude
When I was a kid, my elementary school backed up to my house, and my mom would sometimes check out the window during recess to see if she...
To Celebrate is Up for Debate
As a kid I celebrated Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve and Day, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Easter, my...
"Do You All Do Afro Hair?"
How many of y'all remember school picture day in Elementary School? We'd all line up single-file, drudge down to the gym to wait in an...
Black in Argentina
If you've been following my blogs for a while, it should be none too surprising to you that I grew up as a Black girl surrounded by...
Picture Post: 60 Degrees in January!
Welcome to Illinois--where the weather must be on something, because last year this time, it was frigid...and now we've got a heatwave....
