Books. Seeing words, Smelling ink and turning pages

I forgot I had bookmail. Let me make myself happy real quick.

It’s my godbaby’s birthday. She’s in double digits and I was not ready. ❤️❤️😩😩🥹🥹

I want stuffed shells this week and I have all of the ingredients. Now I just have to feel like making them. Wish me luck.

I need more Black cookbooks. Y’all got a favorite cookbook by a Black person?

My gran used to love these. I don’t eat them, but sometimes I still buy them. When I want to remember her.

Letter writing. And I’m ordering some stationary so I can start again.

Always.

No. Never. 🤢

You know… we don’t have to put everything bagel seasoning on ALL the food.

You been hit by a smooth hymnal

Hey. Hi. Can any of my fine ass fat friends tell me if they ever tried Snag Tights or Sock Dreams for hosiery?

Two boyfriends who are also boyfriends, books, money for books, pretty stockings and a comfy hotel room to have a 24-hour readathon with my best friend.

Who tf is Leonard??? I ain’t never heard that 😂

You know what I wish they would bottle? The Wendy’s honey mustard.

I need a really good car vacuum. What do yall use? Or do you just go to the machines at the gas station?

Baby, you gotta pass out next time

Exactly this. That’s what I want. My very own Vino and Bash. Or my very own Damani and Adrian. Whichever.

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Make sure you follow it with, “don’t get up, I got it.”

Today is the two-year anniversary of my gran’s death. And I have felt adrift every day since. Because where do I belong, if not with her? Whose am I, without her to claim me? I don’t have regrets when it comes to her, bc I made sure there was nothing unsaid, but every day I wish I could say more.

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Not the Cowboys losing… this day keeps getting better and better

If the Eagles get another Jaelan, I swear… 😂😂😂 How many Jalens (insert every spelling variation here) have we had at this point? 😂

Shut the fuck up Cris Collinsworth and Reggie Miller wherever you are

I just prepped some breakfast sandwiches for this week. Look at me, adulting.

Hello. I’m gonna air out my apartment a bit today since it’s nice.

When she got in her face and said, “For all I know, you are lying right now. GO TO BED!!!”” I. Swear. I flinched.

He said “get in the field, in jesus’ name.”

Are any of y’all’s babies gonna be something fun for Halloween like a taco or a potato or a tiny Winnie the Pooh???

I was outside, slinging books, lol. I tabled at five book events this year.

It’s better that way.

I encourage every woman I know to be an unrepentant agent of chaos

No one said anything about perfection and that’s the problem now. Demonstrating effort, words aligning with actions, a willingness to move with your partner in mind and not selfishly IS BARE MINIMUM. The bar is in hell and mfs still can’t clear it.

I’m a self-published author who does line/ copy edits for other authors. Editing is really important. It’s your partner, not your adversary.

I just want to know what he thought it was gonna taste like.

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You know, those Steelers uniforms wouldn’t bother me so much if it weren’t for the pants. The pants are throwing me off

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Okay. I do have a (semi) serious question about football. Does the team charge the players for those giveaways balls? Like, does their check stub show “unauthorized equipment use,” or something lol or do they just factor a certain number of lost balls into the equipment budget, like shrinkage?

I’m happy about this game. Because Giants fans were way too loud a couple of weeks ago for a team that lost like 20 of our last 25 matchups with them. Simmer down.

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No. Because it felt too much like forcing myself to write. Just putting words down for the hell of it instead of with intention

I’m a plantser. Lol. The framework always gets written down. But that chapter by chapter detail and planning how many instances of something happening??? Definitely not.

I write fat girl romance. My favorite characters to write are fat, Black, women.

I’m hoping it takes me to a fatter savings account and a vacation lol

I want to improve my banter, and making my characters are nuanced.

A legal pad and a really smooth pen