Rochester Woman Online June 2022

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A SCATTERED JIGSAW YOU ARE ENOUGH. PUZZLE BY NICOLE HEROUX WILLIAMS I PHOTOS BY NSP STUDIO BY OMENESA ORUMA AKOMOLAFE

is 2:16am. I just finished tidying my room. You should have seen it before now. My panties were on the floor. My work uniform was rumbled on the floor. My books, purse, papers, were all scattered on the floor. It seemed like I lived on the floor. My dresser was cluttered with an unopened bags of white bread, slices that I hadn’t touched. There were lunch boxes on there too(these ones were clean, thank God). My sachets of tea and chocolate cream, were all on this same dresser. My tooth paste, my devotional book, my tracts, my wig, cups, vitamins, ranch dressing and of course Mom’s picture graced the mirror. She was the only thing that made sense in this nonsense. My shoes were neatly arranged, and that’s because this weather has had me wearing only 2 shoes(Work shoes and Tennis shoes). Meanwhile, the bed was covered with pencils, crayons, books, journals, more panties, braziers, pictures, old mail, new mail, clothes, my pink journal, an old remote control to a tv I own in Nigeria. Chargers and Headphones, mom’s funeral notes, a stroller, my cds, and many other things that I had been looking for, they were all on this bed. Okay! Maybe that’s not a problem. Afterall, I justifiably work an ants schedule. 340

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When I come home, I crash. So it’s not a problem. Do you know what the problem is, or was?

junk to the side, and continued to sleep, this time for about 15 minutes. Hunger pangs woke me up.

I got home yesterday evening from work, and I laid myself on this disheveled unkempt mess. At first I laid on top of all that jargon, talked

Did I tell you I had a gallon of apple cider on the dresser? Well, I took the apple cider into the kitchen and sleepily got some ice to drink with it, and ate 2 Jamaican crackers. As I laid back in the bed and talked on the phone for a few minutes, my friend insisted that I sleep. I kept telling him that I was no longer sleepy. I honestly didn’t understand why the sleep had suddenly cleared from my eyes, but he got off the phone to sleep, be ause that’s what normal people do at such hours of the night. This was the problem. I was not fazed by this tornado in my room. It seemed normal to me. But not for long.

on the phone for a while, laughed and even allowed a friend into the room. I was not embarassed at this embarrassment. It was okay to me. After she stepped out. I continued my conversation on the phone, until I fell asleep. In the middle of my nightmare(because I couldn’t be comfortable being cushioned by crap), I used my tired legs to shift all the

As soon as I got off the phone, I put on my piano tones on pandora, to help ease the melatonin. I turned off the light, I still couldn’t sleep. Then from no where, I heard myself utter these words, “GET UP AND CLEAN THIS ROOM NOW.” I spoke to myself as if I was my mother. I then got up and said it again, but this time, I sounded like a Captain on a ship. “CLEAN UP THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW.”


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LIFE IN BALANCE

9min
pages 366-373

MENTALLY THINKING

4min
pages 374-380

WELLNESS 360

4min
pages 362-365

HER EDGE

4min
pages 354-357

LYDIA’S LIFESTYLES

3min
pages 326-329

MANIFESTING YOUR TRUE PURPOSE

10min
pages 346-353

TAMMY’S TIDBITS

5min
pages 332-339

LADY “O”

6min
pages 340-345

DEAR CAMILLE

3min
pages 330-331

BUSINESS TALK

4min
pages 322-325

BLACK WOMEN VOICES

18min
pages 302-315

QUEEN OF COMMERCIAL R EAL ESTATE

4min
pages 316-321

HI TECH HEALTH & WELLNESS

4min
pages 298-301

WHAT MUVS YOU?

3min
pages 278-283

THE LOVE FREQUECY

4min
pages 284-289

LUPUS CHICK

3min
pages 294-297

ANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY CORNER

2min
pages 290-293

SHE BOSS

4min
pages 192-196

FINANCIALLY SPEAKING

6min
pages 172-177

WOMEN WHO INSPIRE

10min
pages 178-191

RWO SHORTS

1min
pages 148-149

SENIOR WELL-BEING

5min
pages 166-171

COACHING WITH ANDREA

2min
pages 144-147

ONE TOUGH MOTHER

9min
pages 154-159

B-UNTETHERED

3min
pages 150-153

LET’S CHAT MIDLIFE

6min
pages 140-143

BEAUTY LIES WITHIN

3min
pages 124-133

LESSONS FROM A RECOVERING PERFECTIONIST

5min
pages 134-139

THE 2022 MISS NEW YORK FOR AMERICA & AMERICAN CONTESTANTS

16min
pages 52-65

BREAST CANCER CONFIDENCE

4min
pages 66-73

FASHION FORWARD

17min
pages 100-123

SACRED O

6min
pages 74-81

WHAT ABOUT THE MEN?

5min
pages 82-87

MS WHEELCHAIR NY

14min
pages 88-99
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