Social media enthusiast. Inquisitive. A little quirky.
Hi, I’m Desiree Allen, a thirty-something single parent with two children. A native of Denver, Colorado, I lived there until 2009, when I moved across the country to northern New Jersey with my kids. I am doing my best to avoid ‘picking up’ a Jersey accent, but I’m not making promises that I won’t eventually start sounding like some of my new friends.
I’ve been invited–and you’re being invited now–to take part in a challenge of reading only three books over the next year. Whose idea is this, anyway? And why would I want to even THINK about joining such a challenge? Three books in one year? Are you kidding me? Who DOES that?! For me, this challenge [...]
I want to share with you an exciting new project that I am privileged to be a part of. Project: UnderBlog is a submission-based collaborative writing project honoring the smaller voices in the blogging community. With five to ten core bloggers to publish, promote, and engage on a monthly basis, this is ultimately a place where most [...]
I’ve thought the past week about what I could write about after reading a book (in one sitting, unbelievably) about a young child that is living with schizophrenia. I agonized over how I could relate to such an intense story. Then, I read an article published today by Chris Brogan, President of Human Business Works. [...]
This is a letter to my younger self. It is unedited and I don’t care. I have so much more to say — I will leave that for another day.
And when I think I’m done, I should keep writing. I often wonder why I can’t think of anything to write about. It’s not as if I don’t have any ideas on what to write about; it’s just my brain that gets in the way, telling me I don’t have anything worthy to say. Worthy [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have tried to process some of the feelings that are left lingering since my life was turned upside in the fall of 2009. It was then that the man I had been intimately involved with for about a year-and-a-half dropped (what I perceived to be) a bomb on me. [...]
When a girl has a sister-friend, things are never quite as scary. You see, when I felt like the world walked out on me, my sister-friends walked in. We have been friends for over 20 years and I am so blessed to have them in my life. I consider it a privilege to be friends [...]
