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🎶 I Choose You, I Do 🎵

There are years in my life where music goes silent. It is usually paired with major life events. I can remember Int’l Players Anthem – UGK coming out in 2007 (nursing school graduation) and literally not having it in my musical hemisphere until 2-3 years later. It played maybe during a CIAA event I attended.Continue reading “🎶 I Choose You, I Do 🎵”

Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins

Zeal /zēl/ – powerful fervor in/whilst aiming to achieve (a mostly common) goal. Jerkins writes as if she’s stood in the historical bowels of Henry Louis Gates’ “Finding Your Roots”; had a conversation with the roaming ancestors guarding precious truths. Zeal is a call and response between the choir and congregation – the elders spreadContinue reading “Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins”

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That’s my name. First (and last) thing to ever belong to me. For, even my first and last breath, I was forced to release.

34 Chapters: A Book Review – “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The reading list for 2025 was a heavy one for me. So much so, that I vowed the last one of the year would be a romance novel. As if romance is somehow less heavy? With all of the vowing and pushing and pulling, the last novel of 2025 still chose me. Shifting around theContinue reading “34 Chapters: A Book Review – “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates”

Descendants of Wood and Water: A Book Review – “James” by Percival Everett

–In the Beginning– This will likely be more than a book review, as this book is more than a book. It’s a love letter of sorts, perhaps even a postcard sent from abroad, a Polaroid snapshot of a renamed landscape encompassing both past and future. Everett deserves all of the accolades garnered. Let me startContinue reading “Descendants of Wood and Water: A Book Review – “James” by Percival Everett”