This is the story of a woman who should never have been forgotten in history. Born Marion Greener, a light-skinned Black woman in early 20th-century America, she reinvented herself as Belle da Costa Greene to pass as white. This was her only way into a world where women—let alone Black women—rarely succeeded. And succeed she […]
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Look around your house right now. The junk drawer that won’t close. The closet you can’t walk into. The garage so full you park in the driveway. The box of cables you “might need someday” that you haven’t opened in five years. You know what? Nobody wants your sh*t. Not your kids. Not your friends.
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My teenage daughter handed me a wrapped book on Christmas morning with a smirk that should’ve been a warning. “You’ll like this one, Mom.” Was all she said. And in teenager talk, that must mean: “This is about to roast you, and I’m here for it.” She was right. Glenn Boozan’s “There Are Moms Way
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Brené Brown wrote “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)” before she became Brené Brown. Long before the TED talk that broke the internet, before vulnerability became a word everyone used without understanding what it costs to actually practice it. This is her first book. It’s Rawer. Unpolished. And written for women drowning
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It is my reasoned opinion that everyone should read “Nobody’s Girl”. Not because it’s easy; I’m afraid it’s not. Not because it will make you feel good; it definitely won’t. But because Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s story exposes a truth we’ve spent too long ignoring: that powerful men can traffic, abuse, and destroy young girls, and