JOURNALS OF JO

And just knowing that I will soon place that lovely elixir to my lips and feel it slither down my throat, leaving a sensation that consumes

After waiting up for hours and hours until the sun came up over the horizon of the tall buildings in this dark city where we live and where

These cats weren't ever your friends and they never invited you to the table.  They always fed you and me, scraps from it when we were h

WHO GIVES A Sometimes you'll feel like you're being used. You'll want to lash out at the world and curse at strangers just because they...

I've spent my entire life trying to be better than where I came from. Where I'm from, the girls there, don't usually make it out of the...

If I could rip my own heart from my chest and show everyone the blood that courses through it.  Point out where the veins meet the artery,

You don’t know me Because you’re not ready for me. I’m sage advice. I’m a life lived. I’m the light in the tunnel. I’m the friend when you

But that very moment when you accept for a certainty that the loss, that it's real and permanent, your life changes. Sometimes it’s subt

But the real work hadn't started. In the weeks, months and years that followed the work we thought would be done, had still gone undone.

There were days when you could hear my momma yelling at the top her voice so that any one of her fourteen children would answer her and do w