The school year is right around the corner and I want to help my students start the school year off right. Please check out my Donors Choose campaign: Successfully Organized to donate to my incoming 4th graders Planner and communication folder fund! www.donorschoose.org/project/succ...

Sheryl Swoops is now my Soror!!!

Why did no one tell me that The Hunger Hames series was going to GUT me the way that it did! Like I need a day or two before I begin The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Ironheart!!! ❤️💛❤️💛🫶🏾

So they dismissed the first African American and woman to hold the position of librarian of Congress…in an e-mail.

I had ordered my book in advance because I didn’t wanna miss out and imagine my surprise when I walked into the store on pick up day and saw little to no push for #Oathbound. No poster, no table, no nothing but you know what had a full table? OnyxStorm…

The fact that people are having to go on journeys to find Oathbound in B&N is not sitting right with my spirit

YA ALLAH NOT ANGIE STONE!!!

If you get an early release of Oathbound please PLEASE do not ruin it for the rest of us! ❤️⚔️💙⚔️💜

I hope you all have been buying physical books…

Completed my first 1 hour writing sprint: 1,200/3000 Going into my second sprint after this 25 min Power Nap.

If White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson taught me anything it was the importance of apologizing to children. Adults may think children are resilient (which they are) but admitting your faults and apologizing for your wrong doing to them goes a long way. It shows that you value them. It matters!

It should not be that damn cold outside unacceptable!

Man life is lifing right now. a psycho is in the damn White House! and eggs are 6 freaking dollars!!!

Diversity isn’t just for February. You can read diversely all 12 months of the year!

Btw: I’m 3/75 in my 2025 reading goal!

So…what was the purpose of the ban?

Where are yall going to be tomorrow when TT goes dark?

If y’all not doing nothin y’all should follow me on my bookstagram same @ (pennblackwrites) I’m consistent there since I like posting pictures 🤣🤣

Why is it so hard to break through on bookstagram!!!

It’s been a minute, what yall doin’?What yall readin’?

What book made you fall in love with reading?

Watching Gleipnir…and yall thought Dandadan was bad?!?

Tomi Adeyemi liked, commented (twice), and reposted one of my TikToks!

Happy new year! What’s your reading goal?!?

Did you hit your reading goal?

Habari Gani?!? Kujichagulia (self-determination) To defend ourselves, to name ourselves, to create for ourselves, and most importantly to speak for ourselves!

Habari Gani! I’m late here but joyous Kwanzaa everyone! Today’s principal is you Umoja (unity)! Umoja is the heartbeat of connection, the foundation of community, and the spirit of togetherness that strengthens us all. How did you strengthen your connections with your community today?

Happy holidays to you all!!!

I can’t breathe. 🤣😭🤣😭🤣

F—k you epilepsy!

I need to be more consistent with my book journaling in 2025

I’m officially on winter break prepare to be sick of me!!!

One more day of this madness!!!

I’m writing a new adult fantasy novel based in Cincinnati. A high school senior learns that she comes from a family of conjurers and in the midst of learning how to hone her abilities, she uncovers family secrets that threaten to break the foundations of her own identity.

I’m thinking about starting an underground banned book ring for my students, where they can bring and trade books and we’d have secret Socratic seminars where we discuss whether or not the books should be banned or not

Tis the Monday before winter break…and the children are acting like it’s Friday already!

Nothing like a child having a melt down during your observations and then screaming “SHES A TEACHER WITH A TIKTOK THAT WRITES ANOUT WITCHES!”

“I hope the people that I hate…always know that I hate them. Because I want the people that I love to know that I love them. And you can’t have it both ways.” -Nikki Giovanni

“this decade will be known for there is no doubt it is loneliness” - Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. Rest In Eternal Power

I’m so thankful for my husband who is always willing to be my sounding board when I working through difficulties of my novel!

Half way through chapter six of draft one part one should be completed by the end of the month. #Progress.

Finish the lyrics: Read a book! Read a book! Read a…

It’s something about the way Toni Morrison reads her works that just makes me smile 😊

I have to survive three weeks until winter break…. Today alone felt like those three weeks!

I really couldn't listen to the Black Panther soundtrack for almost to years after Chadwick died. Whew 🥺 Still puts me in my feelings, but it's easier now.

When your kids literally ignore you until you try to write!!! YES THE ORANGE BANANA YOU DREW IS COOL BUDDY NOW MOVE IT!

The way my students were screaming mustard today… we had to have crump battle brain breaks 🤣🤣🤣

It’s December! What books are u reading to close out 2024? Here are mine

If you’re going to come into my black space to be a troll, you will be blocked and reported. I don’t play that mess over here!