Arielle Loren

Stories of love and rejection, triumphs and failures, and key moments on the path to self-acceptance. With the media’s relentless focus on what’s wrong with the modern black woman, readers will share key moments when they realized, as Zora Neale Hurston put it: “I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in [...]

My family never ceases to keep it real. As soon as I posted the news of my major change, the questions proceeded to flock in.  I am a melodramatic blogger/writer. I’ve always been that way. But yes, I truly thought my major change out because it depends on more than my “soul searching” mood of [...]

I realized over the last few days that as a writer/new blogger I refuse to post space fillers. I haven’t blogged for almost 3 days, but I think that’s okay because you would rather read something that I truly wanted to share versus something I was just using to pass time. Well to the “juicy” [...]