As a girl growing up in church, I always wanted to know more about Lot’s wife, the biblical character known only as the woman who was ...

This month, in the brutality of Alabama summer heat, I am going to start training for a marathon, and it’s all Artney Walker’s fault....

Image by  Mary Fehr of  www.mfehrphotography.com . Social media may have saved Mary-Berkley Gaines’s life. About four years ago, she...

Photo by Katherine Webb I   have a confession: I am jealous of poet and educator Ashley M. Jones. I don’t envy Jones because last y...

Image via B-Metro.com Sometimes I feel as if I’m caught in a love triangle—writing and teaching both tugging at my heart. I was born to...

Dear Javacia, When you turn 35, you must celebrate all month long. When you turn 35, you must celebrate first with a look back. You w...