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Continue reading →: The Perfect Score
A new strategy for helping your teen prep for the SAT: take it yourself, seven times. No thanks. I took it twice, once as a sophomore once as a junior, and that was enough. Mother and SAT enthusiast, Debbie Stier, has a book to help college-bound students.
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Continue reading →: Lady Bird is Chomping at the Bit
A 440-foot machine straight from a sci-fi film is slowly tunneling under D.C. to clean our rivers and streams, eventually. Lady Bird is creating an overflow tunnel for our outdated sewage system…eeeeew… DC water customers are shouldering most of the bill. But we will eventually see it benefits when we…
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Continue reading →: My Feets Are Tired, But My Soul Is Rested
The words of a maid during the second week of the 1955 bus strike in Montgomery, Alabama. I don’t usually post about Black History Month; I grew up with an ever-present recognition of my history. It is February and I am catching up on programming that has waited patiently on…
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Continue reading →: Best Valentine’s Day
Not kidding… From my 17 year-old daughter. If you have a teenager, you get why this is special. This put it over the top.
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Continue reading →: Become a Donor
Some may recall that in November 2012, I donated stem cells to a 12 year-old with leukemia. I found out that she was recently hospitalized with a respiratory issue and is still there. So, send your well wishes, positive energy, prayers whatever you can spare her way. My donor coordinator…
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Continue reading →: How Could I Forget?!?
February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981 Happy belated birthday to one of my all-time favorite artist/activists!!! If you have a favorite song, post it in a comment. ‘Nuff said…
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Continue reading →: Walking the Walk
The drug store giant has decided to walk away from $1.5 billion in revenue from tobacco products. That’s my CVS.
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Continue reading →: Sitting at the Table of Brotherhood
Sibling rivalry gone haywire. I wasn’t going to post about the latest installment of King in-fighting because it hurts my soul. But, when I learned that two brothers want to sell Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nobel peace prize AND his travel bible, I almost cried…literally. How could they even consider…
- A Panel Series From Writing While Black Podcast
- And we have normalized it
- Fuck the cookout
- What does that mean?
I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
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