Affairs

By Zaina Starr Discovering your partner is having an affair is heartbreaking. It leaves scars. Scars never heal. Someone who cannot be with one person for the rest of their life does not need a partner. I love very deeply and the person I call my partner is my best friend. We don’t keep secrets […]

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Why Our Heart’s Get Broken

By Zaina Starr Has anyone ever sat and asked, “Why do our hearts get broken?” I believe that has run across everyone’s mind. My personal experience on this topic is quite remarkable . I should be a bitter, hateful person to all and any man, but I’m quite the opposite. I always look for the […]

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“Mansplaining”

“Mansplaining” by Suzanne Marie Punch, aka “Zaina Starr https://link.medium.com/2gRH0K6KJ6 “The worst part of mansplaining is that when you’re busy telling a woman all about her business, you’re missing out on the opportunity to learn something from her. -Shaunta Grimes, Medium An Urgent Message for Mansplainers Everywhere Mansplaining, what all men are highly intelligent at.  Telling […]

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Round And Round

By Zaina Starr “We go back and forth between second thoughts and second chances.” -Poem Heaven, Twitter Our second thoughts are the second chances. That is all it should ever be, is second thoughts. There should never be second chances with an ex spouse. No one should never go backwards. Always learn to move forward. […]

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Kindness

By Zaina Starr “Sometimes people are beautiful, not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.” There are many people that society can count on that still demonstrate those random actions of kindness. Those people are chained to the melody of paying it forward. That’s the true greatness of being a […]

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Tell the Truth

By Zaina Starr “Let us dare to write about those things we think but do not say, or avoid thinking about entirely.” When songs are played, they move us to respond a certain way by the emotions they bring out of us. Those emotions are triggered by a memory we have attached to the song.  […]

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