I am so tired but I’m having a gin martini watching bad tv on my bed and I have a new medal. Not bad for turning 55 tomorrow! #soleofthecity2026

If only there was a word for “exploitative sexual behavior with a 16-year-old girl when he was 30.”

In today's @thebaltimorebanner.com , I talk to @baltimoreravens.bsky.social fans who are daring to hope as they watch the #NFLDraft this week. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Bumping this: My open letter to the new Baltimore City Schools CEO - We are pulling for you. Please don't disappoint us. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

My open letter to the new @baltcityschools.bsky.social CEO as a parent: Pulling for you. Please get this right. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Baltimore's community fridge network could use some love, especially the ones on the West Side. Please consider filling them up. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

“Every Black kid“ is a lie designed to attack Black families and criminalize Black youth in order to excuse tearing them from their families and communities and depriving them, and their parents, of their rights. This is a centuries-old white supremacist dream. RFK, Jr. is a monster.

Hi! For @thebaltimorebanner.com I want to talk to Ravens fans who are watching the upcoming draft with new hope - new coach, new uniforms and more. Will you be watching? I'm at [email protected] And thank you!

He said this. He knows he said it. It’s racist. I don’t know one Black kid just automatically put on drugs, including the one I’m raising. He should be removed.

Today I wrote about a church in Northwood that had to crowdfund their BGE bill. No one should have to. @thebaltimorebanner.com

As I prep for this 10k, the day before my 55th, still wrestling with this body, with the menopause and the weird belly that looks like a stage prop, and the insomnia and the aches whose provenance I don't remember. I am trying to make peace with never having my 35-year-old body back. Slowly.

I am writing about a Baltimore church that sent out a call to raise money to pay its BGE bill. Do any of you belong to churches or organizations that took donations from members for this? Let me know! [email protected]

I am a journalist in my 50s and a widowed single mom. I’m never going to retire. I hope I don’t have to drive ride share because I’m never going to get the social security I have paid into since I was 15. This is not a happy thing.

Baltimore Center Stage was told to stop any programming that appeared to be #DEI or lose federal funding. They tripled down. www.thebanner.com/culture/thea...

Girl. It’s you.

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Just cobbled together 5.4 miles of running shuffle walking running for this 10k I’m not quite ready for but am doing anyway. The winter knocked into the training for the one in March and made this one slow but I’m doing it!

So I wrote about how white women showed up in my mentions during the racial unrest of 2020 wanting to apologize for racism and forgiveness without acknowledging that I was a human and not a forgiveness dispenser. A poster tried to explain why they could be that way but never responded to my answer.

I wish I had know how pretty I was when I was that stinking pretty. I'm OK with me at 54 but I was so hot and cute at 22-40 and wish I'd realized that. I'd have dated less losers. I'm not sad about it because regrets are dumb. But I wasted time. Don't do that, y'all.

I wish Gaby had more Black friends on #Shrinking.

I am not the only Black person I know who got teary messages in 2020 from people we hadn’t seen in years demanding we tell them they weren’t racist, or apologizing for the world while maintaining they were the good ones. And we never heard from most of them again.

Saying goodbye to @cbsnewsbaltimore.bsky.social legend Marty Bass, whose school closure announcements were a cornerstone of my life. www.thebanner.com/culture/film...

I support this use of my taxes.

A bill introduced in Maryland would make tampons and menstrual products free and available in the restrooms of state buildings. This should not be controversial. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

I have followed this case for years. I was so moved by this sensitive documentary that cannot change the fact that Moriah Wilson should still be here winning races and that Kaitlin threw away two lives for an uncommitted man who lied to her. Tragic.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Dude, where's my trashcan? A @thebaltimorebanner.com column. Seriously, where is it? www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

The story of the disappearance and return of little Tristan King reminds me that, as a parent, our kids are so vulnerable, especially little Black and brown ones. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

The hell?

can it be closed down sooner

My @thebaltimorebanner.com column on Pastor Jamal Bryant, the Target boycott and how nothing is over. www.thebanner.com/culture/jama...

I'm honored to be back yapping about music on #60songs today with Kelis' "Milkshake." Thanks @harvilla.bsky.social for letting me sing the praises of the Black Girl That Rocks, and also us weird Black girls everywhere.

Because they can’t.

I wrote about how frustrating it as a Baltimore City Public School student to have the kids going on Spring Break when they seem not to have been in school very much. I talked to some educators and learned something. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

The hell.

Yup, spot on.

I was trapped in the Middle East. At least we weren't being bombed, unlike what's happening in the area now. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

🚨URGENT: Trump's UNHINGED DHS pick—Markwayne Mullin—confirmation hearing tentatively set for next week! He defends ICE fatally shooting citizens, backs expelling US-born kids, objected to 2020 election results. Tell your Senators: BLOCK this nomination!

Recording an episode of my favorite podcast that’s not my own. Any guesses?

Still looking to tell the stories of Marylanders who are stuck in the Middle East or worried about travel plans to that area for a @thebaltimorebanner.com !

Hanifa designer Anifa Mvuemba announced she was pausing her brand after a rough stretch. I think more Black women should feel comfortable doing the same. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

My racist drama teacher at the American school in Riyadh in 7th grade babysat his kids. She was a good teacher and also hella racist.

More people should buy this book. Not just because I wrote it. But because it’s about grief and surviving the worst stuff with dark humor and a flask.

Baltimore is on everyone's radar as productions and shows leave D.C. and we love it. But we want to remain us, OK! Thanks @lauralippman.bsky.social for the cheerleading!

I want to talk to Marylanders whose families are having trouble getting out of the Middle East, or who narrowly escaped, for a @thebaltimorebanner.com column. Mine was trapped in Riyadh in the 80s, but there was no war. It's frightening. Please tell me your stories.

I had a recipe for sweet potato soup with beer but then changed up and made a vegan corn potato chowder. With broccoli. And beer. I had the beer, you see. I just improvised. Yum.

So I wrote about the Baltimore potholes, because yikes. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish Via Defector

Hilary Duff spoke out about Ashley Tisdale's mom group essay. Remember when I wrote about such groups in @thebaltimorebanner.com ? Good times. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...