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“Martin had a dream! Martin had a dream! Kendrick have a dream!” I’m back after a wonderful whirlwind visit to Washington D.C. I copped tickets to the inauguration but guess what… I didn’t make it. We decided to stay in & stay warm after flashbacks of the frigid temps from 4 years ago. We were […]

People usually get happy at the thought of eating cake. Why though? Is it because cakes are comforting, decadent, stir great memories or is it simply because people just love CAKE? Last week, a friend informed me that she was retiring at the end of the month. It was both sad but happy news as […]

To say that I’m obsessed with bundt cakes wouldn’t be an understatement by any means! Lately, I have been low-key dreaming about them. Totally random, I know but my momma kinda got me excited, then I stumbled upon a great recipe for a cream cheese pound cake and I freaked it out a little bit […]

I was walking downtown on Woodward when I spotted him in his Easter suit moving with a pimp switch!  But it wasn’t Easter! Or spring time… I shouted to him, “you killing it in that pimp suit!” He shouted back, I’m not a pimp! I’m a hero player! Only in Detroit!

Detroit is the city that I love to hate. It no longer has the beauty that I knew as a kid. I just see hopelessness & despair with the occasional bright spot here and there.

I talk about my father all the time; sometimes with  friends or family but most often with myself. It’s hard for me not to even years after he left this planet. Some bonds simply cannot be broken… Last year, I saw a tarot card reader and she read three cards that made me think after […]

Vintage Barcelona Chair? Sure, why not, It’s still a Barcelona Chair and still sexy as hell! ————————— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair and Stool (1929), originally created to furnish his German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, have come to epitomize modern design. Mies van der Rohe designed the chair to serve […]

For no reason other than laziness, I had been holding on to a few rolls of film with a Kung Fu grip. Every week for months, I’d promise myself to get it processed but it took 8 months for it to finally happen. I didn’t feel like driving way out to my usual small camera […]

My friend went to Brazil and I got a nice string of snail shells.  They are so amazing. The variety of colors, the patterns, the size. Mother nature is quite creative.