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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Art or AI?

I swore I wouldn’t use it but it happened. I’m playing with AI in my downtime. I’m using it at work. I’m using it to create new banners for my social media pages.

One of the biggest challenges I’ve had as a blogger has been finding positive images of African American people. If I needed an image of an African American couple, the best I’d be able to find was an interracial couple. With AI, I can…


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Leave the World Behind

I just finished watching Leave the World Behind on Netflix. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name, written by Rumaan Alam. I started reading the book today. I’m roughly halfway through and I feel that the book is more subtle in its observations about the environment, racism, classism and conspiracy than the film is. The book gives you room to decide how subtle or blatant any of the…


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Bread, Toilet Paper and Bananas

Bread, Toilet Paper and Bananas

The air is frigid and biting outside, today. The determined fingers of cold have managed to wiggle their way between the fine cracks and crevasses around the windows and doors of the house and are competing with the warm air blowing  from the HVAC for residence. I’m caught in the middle, bundled in a think sweatshirt, lined leggings and the fluffiest socks I own. I look out the window at late…


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How We Close


Here we are again on the cusp of saying ‘goodbye’ to the current year and rushing into the arms of the New Year. 2021 is being swept, dusted, mopped and saged out of our dwellings.

Many will proclaim the exiting year as horrible and glad to be rid of it. Declarations will be made regarding personal change, owning the new year and resolutions will be written about improving health, finances and…


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Unequivocally


Photo credit: TimOve on Flickr
If you must love,
Go all in.
Don’t half step.
Love is not a pastime.
It is not hobby.
It is not a game.
It cannot be lit then smothered
Like the flame of a candle.
Love is the gift you give
to one you hold in high esteem.
If you must love,
Go all in.
Love with every fiber of your being.
Take off the mask.
Be transparent,
Naked, honest, unabashed
And vulnerable.
Love…


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What I’m Working on Now


I’m sure you’ve noticed the enormous gaps in blog posts over here. (I am SO sorry!) I’m still writing…in spurts. My physical and mental writing space has been cluttered for a while. My creative focus however, has shifted a bit.

For the past several months I’ve been having online discussions about Black Cinema. I’m uncomfortable calling them “reviews.” We aren’t “thumbs-up” or “thumbs-down” about…


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What are you doing on Saturday? 🤔 Around 1:00PM ET…? If you’re free, you should join us over on Movies That Move We on Clubhouse! (Have you heard that Android users can join, now?! 😃) We’ll be discussing, “Monster,” based on Walter Dean Myers award winning novel. Check it out on Netflix, then join us for the discussion on Saturday! We’d love to have you in the room! (We’re live on Facebook at the same time, too!)

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