By Denise Renée Purdie As I prepare for the next leg of my journey, I find myself exploring new pathways. That led me to thinking about...

By Denise Renée Purdie I really wanted this blog post to be called “the royal treatment or droning on,” but it seemed a bit long. Gosh,...

By Denise Renée Purdie Today I’m not gonna lie, I’m feeling very tired and a bit flat, probably almost entirely because of the emotions...

By Denise Renée Purdie It might sound weird to get life advice from a song about gambling, but I think this is extremely good advice: “…...

By Denise Renée Purdie I am devolving Butterfly :: caterpillar I bloomed much too soon A while ago I asked a few friends if they’d gone...

By Denise Renée Purdie Being a bibliophile, I want to go to the library of Alexandria!!! I wish I could have seen the original before it...

By Denise Renée Purdie I’ve read Proverbs 31 a number of times, but never noticed the first nine verses and consequently thought the...

By Denise Renée Purdie Last night I cooked tacos for the second time in a week … by the request of a decided carnivore. Since I may be...

By Denise Renée Purdie I know I’m not the only one to engage in the what-if/sliding glass door game. There are a couple pivotal moments...

By Denise Renée Purdie I’d be willing to bet that 95% of the Black population in America has been told, “Do not air your dirty...

By Denise Renée Purdie So … following on with my last blog post about hoping I'll have my second renaissance, which I almost didn’t...

By Denise Renée Purdie Sometimes I feel like I lived my life backwards. I married early, when I was 20, but ended up having to start over...

By Denise Renée Purdie Apart from waking up praying for a couple people who are having health issues, and I do need to do a lot more...

By Denise Renée Purdie How the hell would I know? I’m divorced!! However, I’ve been observing one of my favorite couples, and I’m...

By Denise Renée Purdie Keywords: God, partnerships, relationships Even without the complications I won’t go into in this post, renovating...

By Denise Renée Purdie Keywords: restaurants, plant-based burgers, music and demographics So a few minutes ago, I ventured forth into the...