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More than you ever wanted to know about soap!

Soap, and skin care, have been life long obsessions of mine and I hope to make them yours too! Skin is our largest organ - we often forget that and...

My newest listen, the podcast: In Search of Black History by Bonnie Greer

I am on the final of this eight part podcast, which I hope continues on for ad infinitum: In Search of Black History by Bonnie Greer. At the onset...

Hello!!

Happy 2021! I am so happy we all made it here intact and hopefully in one piece and still somewhat sane. I took a large part of late 2020 to diseng...