“Lessons in Love and Loss” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, veteran Hot Tea and Ice Sippers--and those new to the blend of wisdom I offer! It has been more than a minute since my words graced this space. A lot has happened to me: some good, some bad, and some I haven’t quite figured out—and how exactly to understand the lessons I [...]
“Loving U Is Beautiful” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! I send you all springtime wishes of non-allergy inducing days and seasonably warm nights. This is the time of the year we spring forward and make plans to shed our winter woes and embrace a new season of potential. One thing I encourage everyone to put away with the [...]
“Taking All the Time You Need” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings Hot Tea and Ice Sippers, and Happy 2018! Trusting the New Year has treated you well and the novelty of snow days hasn’t worn off. It’s amazing how a weather occurrence that brought many of us so much joy when we attended elementary and middle school evokes so much misery now. [...]
“Appreciate, Don’t Hate” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! I trust you are well. The temperatures are dropping, clothing is getting thicker, and we are getting into that holiday frame of mind. Even if you do not subscribe to a particular faith, the remainder of 2017 should offer you at least one day to spend time with loved ones, [...]
“Roll With Being A Role Model!” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! Trusting you are well and staying cool this summer. I’m currently giving thanks every day for air conditioning, cool beverages, and lightweight clothing. Although I’m a Southerner by birth, this heat is something else! Despite the high temperatures, I spent this past Fourth of July [...]
“Parents Are People, Too!” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! I send a virtual shower of confetti and a round of kudos for the college graduates and their family members partaking of this month’s literary offering. Regardless how long the journey took, you made it to the end and you should be celebrated. Along with college graduations, [...]
“Spring Cleaning the Negativity Out of Your Life” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! We are now officially in the middle of spring; and depending on your faith, past the pastel parade that is Easter Sunday when it seems that everyone has to break out the suits in shades of sherbets. For the most part, the weather [...]
“Who Do You Think You Arr?” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! I don’t know about you, but I’m more than ready for spring to officially arrive. I love the opportunity to bundle up with thick sweaters and strut my stuff in cute boots, but I’d much rather leave the house wearing a light jacket or long [...]
“Who Do You Think You Are?” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greetings and Salutations, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! I send well wishes, and hope that 2017 has been filled with good things. We are not going to talk about what happened in D.C. on the third Friday of this month. It is enough to say we should not focus on being discouraged. Instead, we need to [...]
“Looking Back to Move Forward” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greeting and Salutations, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! Can you believe it has been an entire twelve months since we were introduced? My, doesn’t time fly! For those whose 2016 has been filled with all kinds of shiny and new things, I send thoughts of congratulations and celebrations. [...]
“Family Matters: Not the TV Show” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greeting and Salutations, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! The holiday time is upon us with all the trappings that come with it. Travels plans will be made. Diets will be broken. And of course, the holidays are also the time that the concept of how much family matters is held [...]
“Grown Folks’ Friendships” Guest Writer: LaToya Hankins Greeting and Salutations, Hot Tea and Ice Sippers! Sending wishes, and hope fall is doing right by you. For many of us, it is time to move away from shorts and open-toe shoes to sweaters and sturdy footwear. Nights are getting longer, temperatures are dropping and before you know it, store aisles will be [...]
