Domestic violence is a societal cancer that transcends age, race, sex and class to bring shame on the abused as well as the abuser. What makes someone stay in a relationship that places their mind, body, and soul under siege? Why would anyone opt to remain in something that no longer serves them?

When a man loves a woman.

What do we have to do? Get murdered on nationwide TV for them to hear us?

Some days it ain’t worth getting out of bed.

I’ve been engaged in a love affair with books for as long as I can remember. I was that introverted little kid with powder blue cat eyeglasses, never without a book in hand. There is a direct correlation between my writing journey and two life-changing events: the first being a visit from Uncle Sammy, and the second relates to the death of my beloved brother.