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Continue reading →: So long 2022!
This year was definitely a year of growth and change for me! And there’s no looking back. I’m hopeful that I’ve inspired friends and family to work toward their dreams and to be unafraid. Sometimes you gotta jump! Was 2022 good to you? Tell me how!
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Continue reading →: America is Sick
Violence is the origin of the experiment known as America. It began with the slaughter of indigenous people and the kidnapping and enslavement of those upon whose backs the country would be built. That ever-present ingredient has never dissipated. Violence has distinguished the country from others, although throughout history it’s…
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Continue reading →: With Friends Like These…
How exactly do a group of friends go on a trip and everyone doesn’t make it back home? Someone ends up dead? About two weeks ago a group of “friends” went to Mexico to celebrate someone’s birthday. A 25 year-old woman, Shaquella Robinson, ends up dead, one day into the…
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Continue reading →: I Am Tired, In My Bones
Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry were killed Sunday evening at the University of Virginia by an ex-teammate. These three, beautiful Black men will never live out their dreams. I am in shock. More students killed on a campus. I have so much to say yet I cannot…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Talk About Sex
In my writer’s meeting yesterday, we had a great conversation about writing sex scenes. I’m currently writing my first piece of fiction – it is a love story – and my first sex scene. We were discussing the term erotica and its definition. I assumed this story would be categorized…
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Continue reading →: He Could Be My Son
POTUS Barack Obama spoke these words at a press conference when Trayvon Martin was killed. I’m feeling that right now. Last night, my daughter who still lives in the United States – DC to be exact – called me at about 8:44 her local time to tell me she heard…
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Continue reading →: I’m 50 Today
When I was a little girl, I can remember telling people that my Grandma was 54. That seemed like such a big number… And I had a 50th birthday party for my Mom at her house. It was a surprise and we had a great time! So many of her…
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Continue reading →: Dipping My Toe In…
I am a writer. It’s what excites me and fills me up. I began writing as a teenager needing somewhere for all of that angst. But more than that, I was losing friends and acquaintances to gun violence and I needed an outlet. The expression began as short stories then…
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Continue reading →: 10 Tips For Relocating to a New Country
With a growing number of countries offering Digital Nomad Visas and as a recent podcast guest on this topic*, it occurs to me that I have a unique perspective that may be helpful. Whether you are looking to work remotely or to change your lifestyle, here are a few tips…
- Fuck the cookout
- What does that mean?
- I'm sitting in the airport thinking about Michael which I had the pleasure of seeing on Friday morning.
- I became an author at 51, here in Costa Rica.
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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