Carrie Lea

Woah.  This week has been an emotional doozy.   While I enjoy being in my own space and spending time by myself (I’ve been told I’m an extrovert who moonlights as an introvert), it was hard being by myself as the impact of COVID-19 came closer to home than I imagined.  Every industry is impacted in one way or another and…

Dear Future Me, Hey Sis, heeeeyyyy! (I said that with a body roll.) It’s March 2020 and it feels like it should be December already because the year has been off to a tough start for most of the world. We’re currently in lockdown mode in the Bay Area. Gap Inc. has closed all of its stores along with most…

Being a woman is hard. There are so many sides to our lives and so many layers to our stories. From the mother of three to the single woman; to the career professional to the stay at home mom; to the entrepreneur to the activist- and to all the overlapping in between. They are all paving the way for the…

Society would have you believe that there are only two types of women in this world: the good girl and the bad girl. We see it portrayed time and time again in movies, books and other forms of entertainment. The good girl is the virgin wearing white who dresses modestly and has a sheepish, almost childlike demeanor while the bad…

I’ve been abstinent for a little over five years. I remember when I first started telling people that I decided not to have sex before marriage. I received quite the range of reactions: First, there was complete shock: “Why would you ever do that?” and “Yooo, that’s crazy!” Next, there was doubt and disbelief: “Girl, you’re not going to be…

I grew up in an ol’ school Black church. There were church mothers with peppermints in their purses, men with shiny shoes and cufflinks, and morning services that lasted way too long. Outside of church, women wore the obligatory blue jean skirt down to their ankles and paired it with simple, flat white tennis shoes and a basic t-shirt. These…

We’re already one month into the year and quite frankly, January might need a do-over. Everyone is on some new year, new me and showing these grand plans for 2020. But can I keep it real, real with you? This year is feeling more like “new year, same me.” While my social media news is full of people talking about…

The holiday season has a certain scent to it. You can smell the decorative butter cookies, peppermint candy canes and schnitzel with noodles (btw- I Googled that and turns out its chicken fried steak and pasta. Who knew?) Let’s not forget the eggnog lattes at Starbucks, work holiday parties and neighborhood homes lit up with (tasteful or not-so-tasteful) holiday decorations.…

It’s December. It’s my birthday month, the last month of the year and the last month of this decade. Like many people, I look back over the year and celebrate the amazing moments, display gratefulness that I get to see another year and begin pondering about the year to come. I was blessed to have a year of firsts: first…

It was 2012. I had just moved to the Bay Area from Los Angeles to start a new chapter in my life. I was sitting in the front room of my new apartment and just finished a phone call that left me feeling a bit frustrated and discouraged. Little did I know, that one phone call was the start of…