Mrs.Tiye

Mrs.Tiye aka Regina

Who is Mrs.Tiye? (and how do you pronounce that?)

LOL. First things first, TIYE is pronounced TEE.

My name is Regina Townsend and I am the founder and Executive Director of The Broken Brown Egg.  I began spelling my initial as Tiye  while I was working as an elementary school faculty member and didn’t want my students to be able to search me.  LOL   Now that I’m free of that place, I could care less who knows my real name, but I’ve grown attached.   Tiye is also the name of an Egyptian queen whom I respect dearly.

I am in the last lap of my twenties, a proud Chicagoan(and occasional suburbanite), and for the past six years, a wife.  My husband (The Dude), and I have been hanging around infertility-ville for about four years, after trying to do the responsible thing and wait the obligatory “just enjoy each other” year.  We’ve dabbled with pill abuse (Clomid), and lied to all our family members, “NO, we are NOT nearly ready for children!”.  Our great vacation into this loony bin is due to PCOS(me), Hypothyroidism(me), Type 2 diabetes(dude)….and I’m sure weight is up in there somewhere.  Being a black woman, I quickly found, was a very quiet life in infertility.  I believe that should change, so that no one else will have to feel like the lone wolf of their family.  Infertility is lonely enough without feeling like a minority inside of a minority.

I’ve been writing since the age of eight, and I hold a degree in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago, so I knew that writing would be my best way to advocate for a cause so dear to me.  I consider myself  a “plain speech”, or dialect writer. Following in the footsteps of writers such as Pearl Cleage and Zora Neale Hurston, I write the way I hear, think and see. I may say “gon” instead of “going to” because it makes more sense to me.

Librarian by profession and writer by passion, I consider writing and reading to be one of the most personal forms of communication, entertainment and education.

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Thanks for your support!  Feel free to email me anytime!

mrstiye@thebrokenbrownegg.org

*Please note, the opinions or issues expressed on my personal outlets are in no way a reflection of the The Broken Brown Egg Inc. (NFP)

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