LockDown Diaries Pt. 6: This Dating Thing

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Dating during the quarantine is trash, just on a different day. These days I don’t usually like to get too too personal and talk about my love life. But I have been seeing a lot of conversations recently about how, for better or worse, dating has been for singles during this time. When this first started […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt. 5: Baby Boomer Parents

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Tuesday marked 3 weeks to the day since I last talked to my Mom. Our conversation was her confirming what my sister had told me – that she had decided to take a road-trip to Mississippi to visit my aunts, her sisters (with a detour in Chicago to pick up one of her older sisters […]... Read More

Boundaries

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

It’s that time of the year again. People are claiming that 2020 will be their year amidst others making the “I don’t set goals” or “I don’t like intentions” declarations. As one of the few people I know actually liked the idea of resolutions, in the past few years that has shifted to me setting […]... Read More

What I Know for Sure

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Today marks my 41stjourney around the sun. Yup, your girl is getting up there in age. Unlike last year, I’m not freaking out about it. In fact, I started the day journaling and reading my journal entries from the past year. The genesis of the idea was to see how much, if at all, I […]... Read More

Triggers

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

I have a general rule that when I am dating a guy, that I don’t follow them on social media. Actually that extends to most men that I like, date, talk to, or in any way consider a potential. If we end up in a relationship, that’s different. But up until then…probably not. Now the […]... Read More

Drama Free

Posted on January 17, 2018January 30, 2018 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

The joke about New Years resolutions are that no one keeps them and that they’re a waste of time. As someone that has made them for years, I can attest to the accuracy of that for the most part (although I generally achieve at least close to a quarter of mine). But as with everything […]... Read More

Gratitude This Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2017December 30, 2017 by Tasha Rose 1 Comment

Home for the holidays with my family, and all I can think about is how blessed I feel. Not for the the gifts I’m getting or the time off or all the food- all of which I am definitely excited about. But I feel blessed to be at a place in life where I just […]... Read More

Now is the TimeTo Forgive

Posted on March 27, 2017March 19, 2017 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

It’s funny how things work sometimes. A week or so ago as I was driving to work, concentrating on making sure I didn’t accidentally drive onto black ice, I heard this voice come out of nowhere and speak to me. You all know the voice…the soft one, the one that’s like all your common sense […]... Read More

Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Saying Your Heart Was Broken

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Tasha Rose 1 Comment

If you watched the Golden Globe awards Sunday night, then you saw the epic speech that actress Meryl Streep gave after winning the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Award. Now while the entire speech was awesome, the part that lingered in my ears long after the speech concluded was a quote that she gave from Carrie […]... Read More

Solitude vs. Lonely: Which One?

Posted on February 23, 2016March 15, 2016 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

A week ago when the ice blessed me with a day off from work, I took advantage of my free time and went to see the (relatively) new movie How to Be Single. I went expecting laughs and actually walked away thinking about a topic that has been in the forefront of my mind for […]... Read More

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