Family Meal – A Restaurant

I’ve dined at Family Meal restaurant two Sunday’s in a row!  Family Meal is located in Frederick, MD, where my sister and brother-in-law reside. They’d told me about the restaurant several times, raving about the food.  They shared with me that the restaurant was owned by former Top Chef contestant Bryan Voltaggio. I was familiar with…

Back to Quench!

I posted about Quench Restaurant in Rockville, MD on February 20th, “Dining with Groupons” and I didn’t give them a favorable review. After reading my post, my daughter’s boyfriend thought I was harsh and decided to take my daughter back and experience dining at Quench.  The next day my daughter called me from work raving about…

It’s All About the Skirt (& Shoes)!

This past summer I attended the Ubiquitous Health and Hair Trade Show in D.C.  It was my second year attending and as a newbie to the natural hair world, I enjoyed and absorbed all of the things I could learn about natural hair care and products.  I’ll have to save my natural hair care journey…

Black Girl Magic & Boot Cuffs?

What is Black Girl Magic? Lately, I’ve been hearing and seeing the phrase Black Girl Magic all over our various media spectrums. Then my cousin J.T. sent me an invitation that started with: Welcome to the first volume of Black Girl Magic. This is an opportunity to get together with other beautiful, intelligent, successful black…

No More Hiding (Behind the Lens)!

In my April 9th post, I’d indicated that my niece’s were visiting me from New Jersey.  During their visit we had a few photo shoots, and I was the subject of one of them!  They took pictures of me, and they did a fabulous job of posing me and as you can see I rolled with it! These…

My Little Visitors!

Last month my beautiful nieces visited me from New Jersey.  I don’t have a lot of family out here on the East Coast, so I am always happy to have family around. They live a little over two hours away, so that makes it nice. The girls are actually my great nieces; my nephew’s daughters who are 12…