I committed to four literary goals for 2020 and I’m happy to report that I was semi-successful with all of them. The first one was to take a writing workshop. I took four! And it would have been five, but one was canceled due to Covid-19. I really enjoyed the community that two of my … Continue reading
It might be time to dust off this blog. I haven’t been journaling offline, so perhaps writing here might help me get back in the habit. I recently received a promotion at my job and I’m hoping that this will give me content to discuss. Or maybe I’ll just talk about my new quarantine obsession: … Continue reading
Last weekend I spent time on Howard’s campus workshopping poetry and learning from Jericho Brown. Along with the poetry workshop, fiction and nonfiction writers were also there to work on their craft for a weekend organized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation. In one of his lectures, Jericho talked about identity, more specifically, identifying as a poet … Continue reading
I finished the last Moleskine notebook I had a long while ago. Hadn’t considered getting another to replace it until I was at Best Buy and saw a two pack near the checkout area. I looked at how much it cost. And then I remembered why, I didn’t purchase another. The way my coins are … Continue reading
Okay, so that emoji is probably an orange, but in my case it’s a tangerine. I participated in an online writing workshop with Winter Tangerine in August and haven’t written about the experience on my blog. Partially because it’s not library related, but really I just haven’t made time for it. It was a three … Continue reading
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