Welcome!  This blog is dedicated to all women regardless of race, color or creed.  But, the information is especially geared toward women like me.  I’m a 51 year-young African American single parent.  I’ve never been married.  I’ve always desired to be with a God fearing, loving, physically fit, emotionally healthy and financially stable husband.  The white picket fence was not important, but NEVER in my wildest dreams did I think I’d STILL be single at this age regardless of the mistakes or not-so-wise decisions I’ve made in the past.  I have 2 sons ages 11 and 23 (that’s another story/post).  The youngest is at home with me.  I’ve been blessed to obtain a Bachelor of Information Technology much later in life.  Blessed to be able to earn a decent living in the field I focused on—database administration/programming.  You’ll learn more about me on this page as well as other posts throughout this blog.

You and I will talk, cry, laugh and pray.  We will share upcoming events, post suggestions, questions and comments about faith, parenting, finances, health and what many of us most crave—love. 

Here are some sobering statistics.  Read and weep.  Just always remember to keep hope alive.  We just have to believe and we have to uplift one another!  The facts: 

• As of 2007 70% of black women were NOT married.  That included divorced and widowed. 
• The 2004 census tells us that 42.3% of black women have NEVER been married.  The never married number rises of you are between 30 and 34 to 50%.  Compare this to just 16% of white women aged 30-34 who never married. 
• In 1960 80% of black America was married.  In 2008 it was 33%.
• Black America accounts for 70% of new HIV cases.  Nearly 50% of gay and bisexual men are infected and don’t know it.  AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women ages 23-34.
• There are twice as many black women in college than black men, which is not the case in any other race in America.
• For every black man in prison there are 2.5 in college; for every white man in prison there are 28 in college. 
• At midyear 2008, there were 4,777 black male inmates per 100,000 black males held in state and federal prisons and local jails, compared to 1,760 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 727 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.  Depending upon location anywhere from 41% to over 70% of men incarcerated is black.