I've been invited to read for The Inner Loop, a DC reading series, on Tuesday 9/18/18, @ Solid State Books. Details. If you're in the area come through. There will be some other fab writers along with the featured author of the evening, Aminatta Forna. She will be reading from her novel "Happiness."
Reading @ Art Walk
Come out & see me and some fellow memoirists read for Yellow Arrow Publishing at Highlandtown's Art Walk on Friday 6/1. I'll be reading from my book Sonic Memories. My reading time has changed to 7:15pm. Details.
Dope Podcasts!
I posted about Dope Podcasts! that got me through a rough patch and introduced me to a new(ish) media world. Now I'm hooked. What are your fave podcasts?
Black Women in the Arts
Yesterday I went to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)in DC to see the Magnetic Fields exhibit which per the exhibit site "...celebrates the contribution of black women artists and argues for their enduring relevance to American abstraction." One of my homegirls put this on our calendar almost a month ago. Truth be told the …
Fresh Single
2 weeks post breakup I’m fresh single. My dude broke up with me at the end of May and I haven’t seen him since. This summer we’ve talked three times for a total of about 10 minutes and most of our text messages have been all business: shared bills, returning apartment keys, and scheduling times …
Creative/Create/Creator
Being on vacation has its perks: being off work, at the beach, and having the time to follow interesting story threads on Twitter. I landed on a few good pieces today, but there was a section in this particular Q&A piece posted on Create & Cultivate entitled, How One 28 Year Old Phenom Got Recruited by …
post breakup haiku
Progress Sunday was Coldplay Army of One and no tears A break in the clouds.
breakup haiku- Conflicted
Conflicted I’m no broke back bitch. Can’t I be angry and sad? Fuck you! No, fuck me...
breakup haiku- “Love is a Battlefield”
"Love is a Battlefield" --Pat Benatar Music pricks my heart I try to listen, but choose 2 Dope Queens* instead *Podcast
breakup haiku: week one
Haiku rule: 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllable arrangement. Support no barstool wisdom not ready for fuck him girl no questions, just you. Coffee these mornings i wake drink coffee bitter with tears what happened to us?
Cija's Quips 