In a small province in Cebu, Philippines lived a young girl with a simple dream; one bigger than herself and more mature beyond her years.  She had one goal in her youthful and ever-growing mind.  Her dream was to become a servant for her community, for her people, and for her family.  She would not…Read more »

The city of blinding lights.  Claire loved downtown Atlanta but now was her time to spread her wings and fly.  Escape was a better word for it since she was running from her past life; more like running on ice.  She knew if she looked back she would turn into a pillar of salt and…Read more »

The whole situation was surreal at the moment.  Just yesterday it seemed she was at home in the arms of her carefree lover; that warm embrace she longed for in the coldest days of the North Carolina winter.  Toni was always her security blanket; much like Linus in the Peanuts strips she would read as…Read more »

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”-Martin Luther King Jr.  I will expand upon that by saying in our greatest challenges and stormiest days, our enemies shall not prevail if our friends unite in action and love, to overcome adversity and hate, and to…Read more »

Flatline “Oh god, she’s dead,” a frantic voice on the other end exclaims in sheer panic and desperation.” The police need to speak with you about your association with Toni and her friends,” said her co-worker from Starbucks in Raleigh.  Toni had a fascination with living on the edge; experimenting with illicit drugs and risky…Read more »

Liberty, your torch burns brighter than the Sun,  For the whole world to see, how free we are indeed,  From MLK, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell,   To Barack Obama; our first ever African-American President, We have crossed the racial and cultural divide,  Showing proudly our gay pride and turning the…Read more »

Claire was stirred abruptly out of her dream by the sounds of a siren outside.  She had fallen asleep on her friend’s queen size bed after returning from the 69 Club in downtown Atlanta with her home girl.  She didn’t remember most of the night but knew a good time was had by all by…Read more »

Originally posted on Dream, Inspire, Visualize, Expect (DIVE) Publishing:
A whisper in the wind, tickles my ear, Reverberates within my soul, How I want to know what love is, I need you to show me, While I hang on by a thread, Living on a Prayer, Soaring over the storms of this life, Kyrie eleison…

A whisper in the wind, tickles my ear, Reverberates within my soul, How I want to know what love is, I need you to show me, While I hang on by a thread, Living on a Prayer, Soaring over the storms of this life, Kyrie eleison through the finer things, Those keep shining from your…Read more »

Claire kept having this recurring dream.  Even in a strangers bed she felt a war going on inside her head.  In the heat of passion, at the height of climax; as if reaching the summit of Mt. Everest-being on top of the world, releashing her body to the elements of nature, screaming at the top…Read more »