Micky Riggins of MC Films was the co-writer of the screenplay for "The Anatomy of Love"

Chapter Three: How Long Have I Been Here?

As I was wrecking my brain in confusion, the words from the book I had read earlier came back to me, “Love Addiction”. This was God’s funny way of revealing to me that I was a Love Addict. This revelation had hit me so hard that my mouth flew open and my jaw dropped. Immediately, I began to reminisce, and review all of my past relationships. I thought about how I hooked up with them and the reason we broke up. I realized that it was the love addiction that caused me to hook up with these men, and it was love addiction that caused me to break up with them or caused them to run away. To every single person reading this book you must learn this principle, what you don’t kill in your singleness will only transfer in marriage. Marriage is not the fire extinguisher to your lust, marriage is not the answer to your loneliness, and as for me and anyone else who is dealing with this disease; marriage was not the cure to my condition which was“love addiction.”

I wanted my husband to be what he could not and I was trying to make him what he was not. With every relationship I had, including my marriage, I was addicted to the ideological fantasy of love because I had not been taught that love is not a feeling but it is an action. I was searching for someone to fill the empty spot of happiness for me, when it was impossible. Happiness was something I had yet to conquer and in the end I had to ask myself this mystifying question: “How will I ever be happy if I can’t ever be happy”? I would be able to easily answer this question after I gave birth to my third baby, another little girl.

Excerpt from Moment of Clarity by Tameka Anderson

Moment of Clarity

If you have ever been or known someone who has suffered in their love life, most of their life, then this book will bless them. So many people suffer from a disease of the mind, more like an illness, that there is no medicine to cure and yet they have no clue they suffer from it. This book is a variety of stories that comprise the moment of clarity when that disease was made clear. It's a journal of events that led to the discovery and recovery of this mental illness that many battle with and few realize; love addiction.

Moment of Clarity: Diary of a Recovering Love Addict

by L.A. Say

Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild

Going Green – RePurpose, ReCycle & ReUse

A Quilt Exhibit

Featuring

Gees Bend Quilters – Tinnie & Minnie Pettway

July 22 – 25, 2010

About the Exhibit

The feature exhibit is a collection of works authored by Bend Quilters – Tinnie & Minnie Pettway entitled “Tinnie Pieces with Minnie Designs”.  The style of the Gees Bend quilting fits perfectly with the theme of the Ebony Stitchers Quilt Exhibit of Going Green – RePurpose, ReCycle & ReUse.  The success of Gees Bend Quilters lends a great deal of excitement to this year’s exhibit.  The Quilt Exhibit will also have several activities for children and adults; such as quilting classes, workshops and lectures throughout the weekend.  Vendors!!!

The National Black Arts Festival in partnership with Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild present Going Green – featuring Gees Bend Quilters – Tinnie & Minnie Pettway at the Porter Sanford Art Center - July 22nd to July 25^th.

Calendar of Events

• July 22^nd – Opening Night Reception – Porter Sanford Art Center – Rainbow Drive, Decatur, Georgia – 6:30pm - 9:30pm
• July 23^rd and 24^th– Porter Sanford Art Center – Rainbow Drive, Decatur, Georgia – 12:00 Noon - 8:00pm
• July 25^th – Porter Sanford Art Center – Rainbow Drive, Decatur, Georgia – 12:00 Noon - 6:00pm

For more information contact:

- Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild

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Born Tameka Anderson in Chicago, IL, L.A. spent her childhood years in the foster care system in Illinois. L.A. started writing at a young age to ease her pain of feeling abandoned and unloved by her parents. In 2003, L.A. moved to Atlanta, Georgia with her family, she is now a mother of three beautiful children and is recently divorced. Writing has helped her fill the void she has had for years and it has helped her find peace within herself.

As an adult she has always been free spirited and “Hollywood” as her friends called her and has been given the nickname “L.A.”; L.A. continued her writing by creating plays for her church functions and in the year 2008 she started her own Creative Writing and Interpersonal Relations Firm called L.A. Say Inc.

L.A. presently holds her Associate Degree in Criminal Justice and is continuing her studies to gain her PhD in this field. She is positioning herself to one day change some laws in the foster care system. Tameka is also in the process of launching a non-profit for single parents called GASP Ministries and also volunteers for other non-profit organizations.

Some of the people who has influenced in life in over the years are: Maya Angelou for her writing, John Maxwell for his leadership and Joyce Meyer for her spirituality. In 2009 after her divorce, L.A. completed her first book which was inspired by her life’s journey.