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Image @globeatmica Ok, so tomorrow is Election Day. The mid-terms are here. Political ads are polluting our TVs and littering our mailboxes. We are tired of it all, but we can't succumb to that. We've gotta get out there and vote. I voted last week and it's because of my standing on line for two …
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Winter is literally coming, but no, this isn’t a Game of Thrones reference although HBO needs to get its house in order and give me my G.O.T ASAP… Now that I got that out of the way let me explain. I lost my Dad suddenly 10 years ago. When he died thoughts of mortality awoke from hibernation, …
I made the decision to straighten my hair. Only now do I realize that by perming my hair I had to keep chasing away the new growth like a hungry stray dog. It told the truth about me; I was nappy.
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."
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.
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …
Progress Sunday was Coldplay Army of One and no tears A break in the clouds.
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