Monthly Archives July 2025

She wakes up before the sun remembers to rise, braids one child’s hair while packing the
other’s lunch, answering work emails with one hand and flipping pancakes with the other. She is
cape-less but heroic, stitched together with stress, resilience, and caffeine. The modern single
mom—a force of nature with no backup. …

My name is Shayla, and this blog is where I lay my truths down like bricks—messy, cracked, but
sacred. This is the space where I peel back the layers. Where survival becomes art. Where
healing doesn’t have to be linear or pretty. Just real.
I’m a Black woman in my forties.
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