Author Archive: lifeisanepiphany

It Happened! Somebody Touched My Hair!

A couple of days ago, my husband and I were out for lunch at a cafeteria style restaurant and I had just sat down to a tasty meal of baked chicken, greens, macaroni and cheese, and a roll. The waitress comes over to introduce herself to us and immediately starts telling me how much she …

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But God!

Last year was probably the most emotionally trying year of my life. It wasn’t one of those years where there is a storm that weathers you, but almost a year ago I basically created my own storm. I did this by going completely against God’s will and what He wanted me to do. I fell …

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The Importance of Giving Thanks!

Thanksgiving is a holiday that is like a step child to Christmas. If you haven’t noticed, before Thanksgiving can even pass, there are already advertisements for Christmas, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. At one point, Christmas programs were not even aired on television at least until Thanksgiving afternoon. These premature advertisements and television shows are …

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The Busy College Life in Pictures!

Well, I haven’t been able to blog in months due to being way too busy! I’ve enjoyed blogging so far, but my grades have had to come first! Anyhow these are a few shots of my life this semester!

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Let me be patient, let me…

Let me be patient, let me be kind
Make me unselfish without being blind

Lauryn Hill- Tell Him(Based off of 1 Corinthians 13:4)

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The Importance of Literature to the American Youth

America’s youth seems to be a reality show crazed, texting addicted, social network loving generation. Gone are the days when children actually read for their enjoyment and leisure. Instead most kids groan when their teacher introduces a new class book. Instead of the reading the book and looking at the author’s words the way they …

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My Journey: Falling In Love With My Hair

Back in 2009 was the first time in my life that I really noticed women deciding to wear their natural hair texture. Out of curiosity I began to stumble upon websites like naturallycurly.com and curlynikki.com. Wearing natural hair was an idea that seemed foreign and oddly incorrect to me at the time.Like many other black …

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My Introduction

I figure I’ll use the first post to introduce myself and discuss this blog thing somewhat more in depth. First off my name is Karen and I am an 18 soon to be 19 years old sophomore in college who is majoring in English Education. Growing up I always wanted to be a writer, I …

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