Tag: love
Posted on January 22, 2020
by Shakiyla
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If you’ve known me for more than 5 minutes, you know that the last thing I saw manifesting in my future was marriage. Children, yes. Adoption, for sure. But I’d gotten to a point where I was thankfully content in singleness and had grown… Continue Reading “I Am Getting Married.”
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Posted on June 21, 2019
by Shakiyla
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Looking at my website, I noticed it had been over a year since I’ve posted in the “Meet a Friend” section. The purpose of my creating that page, as stated, was to shed light on some of the most compelling and impactful people I… Continue Reading “Meet Sarah and Judy.”
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Category: Life.Tags: africa, ankara, babies, barren, family, fellowship, friendship, healing, hysterectomy, love, motherhood, nigeria, nigerian women, strong women, women
Posted on December 22, 2018
by Shakiyla
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I’m finally sharing. Initially, I planned to post on the website the day I landed in Abuja, Nigeria, then I realized how useless that would be. I decided to give myself time to experience the city of Jos before I shared. That was the… Continue Reading “Welcome to Nigeria.”
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Category: Life.Tags: africa, Black women, black women travel, community, cooking, culture, feature, food, jollof, jos, love, main market, meat pie, nigeria, travel
Posted on June 10, 2018
by Shakiyla
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This is my first time posting on the website since I made the decision to have a complete abdominal hysterectomy. I felt myself walk away from writing. I felt myself walk away from opening my heart to the world (or at least the small… Continue Reading “I am Woman.”
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Category: Life.Tags: adoption, africa, barren, Black women, childbirth, christianity, endometriosis, growth, healing, hysterectomy, love, nature, peace, photography, singleness, woman, womanhood
Posted on March 31, 2018
by Shakiyla
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We are saying farewell to March with a short and unexpected Travel Blog. After having the catheter, managing pain, and many unwarranted doctor visits, I was sure I wouldn’t be able to afford a March trip. If you haven’t been following my website, you… Continue Reading “Hello, Arkansas. Goodbye, Arkansas!”
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Category: Family., Life., travelTags: accountability, arkansas, challenge, family, friendship, goals, love, traveling, women travel
Posted on March 20, 2018
by Shakiyla
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I haven’t posted on my “Meet a Friend” page in quite some time, so here goes: Elijah is my little brother. He’s the oldest of the two but will always be my baby. I’ve watched him go from being a complete MUTE, to… Continue Reading “Meet Elijah.”
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Posted on January 11, 2018
by Shakiyla
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This is not some rouse to get you to read my blog. Today, for the first time in a long time, I uncontrollably cried. Here’s how it started: Last night, around 10pm, I was overwhelmed with insecurity. I felt like I was an embarrassment… Continue Reading “Today, I Cried.”
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Category: Life.Tags: classroom, compassion, crying, education, growth, insecurity, love, personal, students, teacher, teachers, tears
Posted on January 2, 2018
by Shakiyla
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I’ll go ahead and get right to it. I haven’t posted in about a year, and the last time I did, it was a short poem about an exhaustive break-up. I made the conscious decision never to go back to that place. I decided… Continue Reading “The Year of Growth.”
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Posted on September 18, 2016
by Shakiyla
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I don’t have very many people who stick around. I don’t mean people who know OF me, I mean people who know my heart and all of its hurt. People who know my mind and why it works the way it does. People who… Continue Reading “An Epiphany…”
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Posted on December 2, 2014
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Lately I’ve been asked where the ‘Abraham’s Tent Love Auction’ came from, and I guess I don’t really tell the “backstory” that often… Well, here’s a condensed version: 3 years ago Justin and Emily Martindale had this calling from God to have a fundraiser… Continue Reading “Where Did the Auction Come From…?”
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