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XOXO, random ramblings and letters to the reader.

How do you Like your Voice? 13 Fun Facts About your Vocal Cords
Research shows that people generally prefer deep voices. Many women have gone to great lengths to change their voice. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enlisted the services of a vocal coach to deepen her voice so she could sound more authoritative.

The Weekend That Never Ended
“Thank God it’s Friday,” they say. Monday is “blue” and the week is always long and everybody gets super excited when Thursday night comes because Friday is so close! Everybody loves Friday!

There Will Be No Snapback Here
It’s been seven months since I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. A wrinkled, scrawny, tiny, screaming, entitled little blessing. My third baby. My third time bringing a human life into this world. Third C-section. Three times, my body has stretched itself to accommodate another life. For the third time, my boobs have been converted into a baby food manufacturing plant. And so

Rapid Fire, PR, Hustler, Lava - Who's in your Girl Squad?
We’re talking about girl squads today. Now we know that every woman has a circle of friends that she cannot do without. Women who hold you up and are willing to come to the rescue at a moment's notice. Tell us if you have these women in your girl squad.

Just a Thought: The Power of a Single Thought
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18 Fun Facts About Your Eyes
Today, we're talking about how awesome your eyes are. Did you know that your eye can differentiate about 10 million different colors? Or that your eye is made up of over 2 million working parts? Incredible, right? Keep reading for some more interesting facts about your eyes.

13 Fun Facts About Your Heart
Did you know that your heart pumps a staggering 2,000 gallons of blood every single day? That’s equivalent to 7,570 litres! It’s the powerhouse of your cardiovascular system yet it weighs less than 1 pound (0.45lbs). Talk about being small but mighty!

Dear Reader, Thank You...
With all the ups and downs this year, we want to take a moment to say an enormous “THANK YOU” to you, our loyal readers. This year 199,503 of you came to our website to read our content. We appreciate all the shares, likes, comments and emails are truly grateful for your unwavering support.

TWSC Discussion: So, We've Been Thinkin'...Self-love
Hey, Sis! So we'd like to create some discussion around self-love because we believe it's been grossly misunderstood. God bless the adults in our lives who raised us and taught us to be kind and giving people. But many of us fell into the people-pleasing trap because we didn't know we could value others and ourselves at the same time.

Dear Change
I’ve struggled more times than I can count to adapt to the abrupt shift you bring. You’ve often come as a gift I could clearly recognize because you were bright and shiny and appealed to all my senses. I’ve welcomed you many times with open arms and found it hard to contain my excitement over the idea of you.

Dear Woman
This is an assertion to every woman out there: You are beautiful – a beautiful beauty that radiates from within. You are more than that: you are fire, spirit and force combined. Life forces often compress and pressure you and instead of dissolving away, you come out as beautiful as a diamond! A rare diamond cooked under intense pressure.

Sis, Let's Talk About That Man-Made Love
When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden and realized that they were naked, they scurried off to find a solution – albeit temporary – for something that was missing. They were exposed and because they couldn’t bear the reality of their choice, they rushed to create a pseudo-solution from the work of their hands.