Sheryl's Pearls Blog
Black Love Matters
“Miscommunication does not mean incompatibility.” Marvin Sapp dropped that gem a while back on Facebook and I saved it in my phone. I discovered it yesterday after deciding not to write this post. I was annoyed by a recent Essence…
Love Won’t Leave Me Out
Two things got me through a rough patch a while back: 1) God and 2) the work He was doing through the music of Tasha Cobbs and Chrisette Michele. As I sat in the lonely silence that follows the moment…
We Can’t Be Friends
I became more careful about ‘platonic’ relationships after a male friend told me in a stern, exasperated tone that he had been ‘waiting on’ me for more than a year. As he aired his grievances, I played dumb, insisting I…
Unfinished Business 2: The Things You Left in 2014
At the end of last year, there was a common theme in my social networks: leave it in 2014. It was as if everyone decided to stuff bags full of the good things and people in their lives, scribble “2015”…
Unfinished Business: Making Hard Decisions in the New Year
The world is a scary place when you don’t trust yourself. When you can rattle off a list of mistakes and bad decisions with the ease that Catholic school children recite the Holy Rosary, it is easy to question your…
Try a New Thing
I was only trying to expand his horizons. Unfortunately, he wanted no parts of the slice of heaven that I offered. So he hurt himself running away from me. It happened shortly after my sister swung by Mickey D’s to…
A Grateful Heart
My sister and I have reached an age in which we find ourselves regularly pointing out how much we sound like our mother. The realizations are funny and even scary – not because our mom is anything short of amazing,…