The Traumatizing Effect of Black Lives Lost By Author Robyn Williams Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root It wasn’t until after I saw the Allstate TV commercial that I recognized just how traumatized I was. My trauma from all the...
By Author Robyn Williams Watch the throne, people. I implore you. No, not THE throne, but more specifically, the throne associated with phenom artist, Kanye West. Remember his epic 2011 collaborative album? My favorite song from the Watch The Throne collaboration was “No Church in the...
By Tamera (Like) Camera A Fool’s Paradise from Robyn Williams Oh my goodness – this book. It’s a hammock book for me – this intriguing world of lifelike imagery and memorable, colorful paradise. I love this provocative and imaginative tale of memorable characters in a relentless quest...
By Robyn Williams Long before Billie Holiday sang about the trauma of finding “strange fruit” in the form of black bodies swinging from trees, Jim Crow laws sought to marginalize us. Throughout the segregationist era, we continued to be lynched and denied opportunities because of the...
By Robyn Williams If you had to choose, which would you rather have? Five thousand FB friends or one lifetime BFF? Consider the following before you answer. I staunchly believe that our closest friends are the family we get choose. They are gifts given to help us...
By Robyn Williams I know what it feels like to struggle with deep bouts of depression. I know what it feels like to constantly push past the pain of emptiness. I know the impact of forcing oneself to just keep putting one foot in front of...
By Robyn Williams Why the #RenaissanceMoment for my books amid COVID-19? During this pandemic when many of us are working from home and sheltering in place, we all have serious issues that consume us. But in those moments when we are not working or caring for...
The Call To Write by Robyn Williams I remember sitting in my small apartment in East Elmhurst, Queens New York many years ago. At that time, my dining room table lay covered with rejection letters from what seemed like every major publishing company in the US. When...