Excerpts from the Diary of a Diva

My family continues to be a complicated factor in my life. My father clearly doesn't want me in his. Even though it hurts me to write this, it's how I feel. I found out that he comes to my city once a month to see his sister. But he doesn't even bother to make time for me. This probably wouldn't bother me so much, but I really want a father who wants a daughter. I don't have that. What I have is a man with whom I share DNA that I can't relate to...and even if I could, he's not interested. I was having a conversation with my cousin at her mother's bedside. Unfortunately, my aunt is suffering from Alzheimer's and is slipping away slowly in real time. My heart aches for my cousin because she's an only child and she's doing the hard part of caring my aunt by herself. Thankfully she has an amazing husband who's helping her, but I cannot begin to imagine what she's going through. We were talking about our sick and twisted family dynamic whe...

Dear God, Remove the fear that keeps me small and replace it with faith that reminds me  I’m made for more. When my Apple Music revealed to me that my song of 2025 was “We Are One,” it finally unlocked the words I’ve been looking for. This year has been a whirlwind all the way around. My heart has been through so much this year — both good and bad.  Our country has gone through more changes in this one year than I’ve ever seen thanks to the Felon in the White House — heretofore to be known as FITWH. He’s made it his business to make sure that my nieces are growing up in a country that may never treat them equally and where they’ll have fewer rights than I did.  This clown car government is run less like a ruling body and more like a reality show. If you look at the players, they’re cast less for their skill and ability and more for how good they look on camera. The bad part is that the policies they’re enacting are making people that look like me less safe in America. In ...