To the mighty bean I’m sharing my body with, In 95 days (or less!) I’ll finally be able to hold you. I knew you were in here the earliest moment ever. It was the start of a pandemic, so I had hours where I pictured what life would be like with you, when you were…
Aliyah Explains |Pregnancy Brain Dump
This is about to be painfully honest. so honest that I haven’t even decided on posting to fb, because I don’t want my family calling me to give me empty “it’s going to be okays” I just wanted to vent. Everyone talks about pregnancy like it’s this beautiful experience from start to finish and I…
Aliyah Explains | Ending a Long Term Friendship
Hey yall, Breakups suck so bad, that everyone talks about them openly. Over the years there have been movies, songs and even self help books. What about friendship breakups? Or would we call them that? I’m not sure, but losing a friend hurts just as bad. And some people lose a huge group of friends….
Aliyah Explains | Blue Bottle Trees
If you have ever traveled in the south, you might be familiar with these bottle trees. If not, it’s probably because they are more popular in the “old south”, states like Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, and the Carolinas. These trees are traditionally made with blue bottles that homeowners have saved over the years. Now a days,…
Aliyah Explains | Save Weeksville
Hey everyone, This one is coming straight from the heart immediately after hearing the Weeksville Heritage Museum is in major need of help. For starters, let’s talk about Weeksville for a second. It came to be after a group of Black investors purchased a chunk of land from a Dutch family not too long after…
Aliyah Explains | Self Care; The Real Version
Happy New Year…(or do we stop saying that by March?) I have been thinking a lot about this topic over the last year, which was the most ‘self care’ I’ve needed since college. I struggled with things I couldn’t imagine and face masks did not fix it. This may sound weird, so let me break…
