12 Sep 2016
I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since my marriage ended. When I got married in 1999, I just knew it was for keeps. Divorce was never an option. Or so I thought. After coming...
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06 Sep 2016
Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, “Southside With You” recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika...
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15 Jun 2016
Several weeks ago, I was meeting a good male friend of mine for coffee after having not seen him for several months—except on Facebook. We caught up on what’s been happening in our lives and...
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02 May 2016
One of my favorite quotes is: “You will learn more from your failures than you ever will from success.” History has shown this to be true. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball...
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16 Feb 2016
2005 was the most painful year of my life. My daughter had just turned one when I found out that my husband—who I had been separated from for four months, with a faint hope of...
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14 Feb 2016
Valentine’s Day makes many of us obsess about this thing called love. In my teenage years, I used Harlequin Romance novels a guideline for what love should be. What I know now (as I’ve grown older and wiser),...
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07 Dec 2015
Most people get excited about the New Year because it’s a chance to start fresh and do better. It’s the time to think about the changes you need to make in your relationships for you...
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28 Sep 2015
If you had told me in my 20’s or early 30’s that I would be single by the age of 40, I would have thought you were out of your mind. From as early as...
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11 Sep 2015
We’ve all done it: ran into an ex we haven’t seen for a minute and got so caught up in how good they looked that we developed amnesia about our past with that person. If...
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24 Aug 2015
Christine St. Vil is an a sought-after speaker, popular blogger, published author, social media expert and #1 F.L.Y. Mom of Moms N’ Charge. However, she wasn’t always in charge. There was a time where she...
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