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Social Media Break: First Month Off
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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…
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REWIND! Repetitions That’s Serving Me
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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…
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Meeting My Penpal/Cousin
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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…
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My First Writing Residency
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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.…
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Against the Grain: On Quilting, Rebellious Spirits, and the Miseducation of Wendy Kendrick
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“When the house creaks or makes some weird sound, I just say ‘Hey, Ms. Aminah.’ I figure she’s just tipping through to see what I’m working on.” I smiled when Wendy Kendrick, the 2021 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship recipient, said that. The fellowship includes a three-month residency in Ms.…