Author: Trelani

It’s now been two months away from IG and FB! This post is a follow-up to my one-month off post. Here’s where I am with it now: The addiction is still the phone I’m doing better at putting it away, but I’m still on it more than I’d like to…

The title “social media break” simplifies things, but I’m only really off Instagram (where I was spending 6-7 hours a day) and Facebook (which I really don’t like no more but keep around like a bad relationship). I kept TikTok because I only follow my children and they’ont play about us…

I’m a wanderer and a risk taker, and I love adventure. But lately, I’ve been enjoying repetitions around how I spend my time. These are the top ones. Rereading Books I’ve read about seven books so far this year, and four of them are re-reads. I’ve read them before and…

I signed up to be apart of this bomb ass community called the Black Letter Writing Society. As the name suggests, it’s for Black folks only. Once you sign up, they’ll send you 5-8 penpals whose bios are similar to yours. My penpal/cousin wasn’t on my list, but I was…

I spent two weeks in March in Amherst, Virginia as a writing resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided, and once-a-week housekeeping is included. Residents are writers, visual artists, and composers, and there are about 20 or so present at one time.…