Celebrating Black Maternal Health Week #BMHW25

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Mom and three kids Greetings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! Things have been busy. I am still a working mom of three, working full time who is trying to make a difference. I do a lot of things and try to be present so that I can learn from them. I share them on this blog so that we can learn together. Below are some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world. Black Maternal Health Week April 11-17, 2025 I am a Black mom to three wonderful children. I was blessed to have three successful births. While I am an attorney, my third delivery highlighted the potential risks that occur when a physician fails to listen to the birthing person. Initially, I chalked it up to the physician involved and limited it to my personal birthing experience. Then, I learned that I was not special. Overwhelmingly, Black women experience higher rates of birth trauma, birthing complications and negative birth outcomes.  These statistics are what lead to the creation of ...
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How Working Moms Can Tackle the Laundry Monster!

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Thinking it would be great if Alexa did laundry.
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful..." -
--old Pantene Commercial

When I was a kid, Pantene had a commercial with the above tag line. It doesn't really apply to me, but I have been longing to include it in a post! Mine would be more like, "don't hate me because I appear to have it all together".  People tell me they think I have it all together and I laugh because they should know that they should have learned long ago that everything that glitters isn't gold. Also, everything that I have or appear to have is the result of hard work, very hard work.

Below is one secret to my success...


How I Tackle the Laundry Monster!



One of the most common questions I get online and in person is "how do you manage all of the laundry"?! I have three kids under eight. So, it's a very legitimate question.  It is unlike the illegitimate, insulting, very annoying questions that all go something like, "how can you possibly leave your kids and go to work every day?!" question. Anyway, I digress, I'll write about that some other time. 

As it relates to tackling the laundry monster, I have learned some things. First, laundry is like the definition of a mandatory yet mundane task. It has to get done, but it can be absolutely soul sucking. If you want to learn how to do your laundry and protect your soul, click below!



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