There nothing like landing on the flight home only for your phone to ping with seven emails and texts concerning the next trip. It sparks a very specific type of fury-laced anxiety.

"I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them," he said. What does that have to do with the person whose memorial he was speaking at??

Bonjour à tous ! 🙏 #Mood C'est Lundi.......

Had this dish at Cafe Rue Dix in Brooklyn. It’s the national plate of Senegal. Omg, 😋!! I will sleep well tonight. And yes, that’s a habinaro pepper on top.

Two years ago when I was in Oman visiting the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. 🕌 Utterly stunning. Had to pull up these images yesterday while conversing with my MAGA relative about Islam (heh, what a conversation, 😮‍💨. Note: I am not religious in any way. But I am spiritual).

I’m in Brooklyn…it’s too damn noisy here. I’m used to the quiet of the desert (I live in a very quiet part of Phoenix). I don’t see myself sleeping well with all this noise, ☹️.

It was. 😆 It truly is the magic number .

Ah social media can make me laugh. Case and point: This is an image of a cute borzoi doggy. 😍 I love them.

First two minutes in New York in my cab: A man slapping at my window asking for something, a woman on a motorcycle in a cowboy had blasting music, a man throwing a whole bag of something on the ground and walking off. 😆

#blackbooksky #booksky *Zarah the Windseeker,* by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, is a book of speculative fiction in an African-based setting, about a sheltered girl with a gift that frightens her, setting out on a dangerous journey to save her friend and learning not to fear what she does not understand.

Maaaaan, I have soooooo much to say about sooooo many things. Especially over the last 6 weeks.

I addressed the toxicity of cancel culture in Death of the Author. I stand by everything my novel said on the subject.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Well, right off to an auspicious start…

There’s no magic pill. The only way forward is bit by bit, this plus that, tiny steps forward, even after stumbling backwards. I’m not interested in doom and gloom, woe is me, it’s too late. Go in your corner and cry while the rest of us try and do what we can how we can when we can. We can.

Gonna put this right here for those who need a reminder: bsky.app/profile/nned...

This is great. I also think we need this kind of effort and conversation in cities with those consuming left-leaning information. This is Bluesky and I know no one wants to hear this but...a lot of people's views are OFF and they don't know it or want to hear it. 😬 We can all do better.

The fact that we could talk and disagree and yell even insult and not hang up on each other. This is the closest person on this planet to me and she is pro-MAGA and I'm independent (I don't like groups or labels) whose views are rooted in freedom, progress, hope & joy. We BOTH have advanced degrees.

Saw this sphinx moth yesterday at dusk. I loooove them. 😍 Fun Fact: They’ve been on the planet longer than hummingbirds. They are the hovering O.G.s

It's been days and I finally had my conversation about recent events with my close MAGA family member. I've calmed down enough, I guess, and it was just time. We talked about it ALL for nearly three hours. It got heated, there as yelling, but it went ok. I'm patting us both on the back.

Agreed and proud to be a member of the WGA.

Finished #deathoftheauthor by @nnedi.bsky.social. Holy shit. It’s like if a tesseract was a book. Unsurprisingly the quality of the comments on Reddit mirrored the quality of the comments on Zelu’s book. Whew. My brain. 🧠

Lately, the music I most want to hear involves someone grabbing the mic and just screaming into it.

the joke that got Kimmel kicked off ABC isn't even at the expense of Charlie Kirk. the way the US is accelerating in fascism is truly scaring the shit out of me!

Months ago, I was coming out of the gym when some white guy yelled the “n” word at me from his car. My first thought was, “Wow, it’s been a while.” After this past week, I’m just like, man, if you want to be hateful, go ahead. Just stay the fuck out of my way.

Walked past this dog minutes ago. I said, “How are you?”, dog responded, “Woof!” and then went inside. 😊

Osun-Osogbo, the sacred grove in Nigeria. An important place in DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. Years ago, me (a writer), CJ Obasi (a filmmaker) and Mara Menzies (a storyteller) tried so hard to get there from Abeokuta. 😆 I was so upset about that failed trip that I wrote about the place. One day, man.

Space cats wrasslin’ and a house robot roboting. 🐱🐱🤖 Home sweet home.

A pleasant surprise = walked over to the Berwick Public Lib to return a book and what was on top of the New Books display? @nnedi.bsky.social 's Death of the Author! Yoink!!

Came home to Periwinkle Chukwu sprawled out on the couch. This is the type of sleep one achieves when they don’t know or care that social media exists.

You got one of the funked up ones, 😃. I found one during a book signing and kept it for myself. As someone who sometimes writes backwards and when I was a kid initially saw letters as moving bugs and wrote upside down sometimes, this glitch in the printing seemed soooo me, lol.

The writer: I worked so hard for five years on this novel and [explain and explain the process]. 50% of the comments: OMG, the cover is so great!

I strongly suspect that much of this chaotic feeling is because of social media amplifying a small irrational minority (the U.S. president and his cronies are part of that minority) of voices and creating a false narrative. Limit what you mentally consume online.

Me: All of the below.

Today, I’m working on the final edits for THE DAUGHTER WHO REMAINS, the 3rd and last book in the SHE WHO KNOWS novella trilogy. It’s due out in 2026. I wrote the first one while I was 2/3rds through writing DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. I needed to write this series; proud to complete it. 💪🏾😌 #africanjujuism

I’m stopping. I’m not participating in anymore conversations about it. I’m just watching, listening, thinking, shaking my head, and loosely planning. I’m holding on to my humanity, clarity, courage and voice.

This is my vibe. Less reacting, more thinking, connect with the Earth for wisdom amidst the human chaos. Sit with it all. Unlike our unstable uninformed President, I understand the wisdom and control in staying calm, observing and not jumping to destructive conclusions.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This is my vibe. Less reacting, more thinking, connect with the Earth for wisdom amidst the human chaos. Sit with it all. Unlike our unstable uninformed President, I understand the wisdom and control in staying calm, observing and not jumping to destructive conclusions.

“The future fills me with equal parts excitement and fear.” Beautifully put.

I limit how much I discuss the Kirk assassination on social media. So if you see conversations I start disappear, it’s because I’ve had enough.

Yesterday, Anyaugo (my daughter) and I went on the four-hour Verde Canyon Railroad trip. It was was the perfect day to go, considering all that is happening in this country right now. Four hours on an open train traveling through a spectacle of the natural world was exactly what we both needed.

Less reaction. More thought. SLOW DOWN.

Today was the perfect day to step away. 🏜️🌵🚂

Timeline cleanse. A happy hidden place where you can sit, lean your back against a stalk and read a book.

He laughed at the violence People are laughing at him getting shot. None of this is civilized behavior.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

These two photos sum of the vibe that I got during my trip to Washington, DC days ago. The last time I was there was March 2024, yeah, very different vibe. For one thing, the White House wasn’t cordoned off like a fortress and surrounded by police (who ALL seemed to be white men, BTW).

His work is one of my *greatest* influences. Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, Spirited Away, Panda, Go Panda, Nausicaa, Howl’s Moving Castle, those specific works are all huge for me. They taught me so many things about narrative, character, atmosphere, nature, spirituality, philosophy, etc.