• Family,  Food,  Fun,  Travel

    The Murray’s Summer Getaway

    For the past three years we have made it a tradition to visit Martha’s Vineyard. Growing up I’ve always heard of this place typically from The Kennedy’s and most recently The Obama’s visiting, I never thought it would be a destination I would fall in love with. My husband was invited to visit for the African American Film Festival week in August 2015. I contacted a co-worker because I knew she was from Massachusetts and her family had a home on the island. Jaz provided me with guidance on traveling to the island ….. Thanks Jaz!! It was right on point I found a hotel in Middleboro, checked the hotline…

  • Travel

    Road Tripping to Howard University

    Have you ever planned a trip literally at the spur of the moment? I’m almost always down for a spontaneous trip. Except the one time when Naif (my son) was maybe one years old and Sadiq (my husband) wanted to fly to Chicago for the night and return the next day. I know it sound exciting! But I wasn’t quite down because Naif was with his g-d-mother and I couldn’t do it without giving advance notice (I chickened out). But what if our flight was delayed or something? Those were the thoughts that went through my big head. I didn’t want to take the risk! However when Naif was roughly…