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Continue reading →: Who is Tica Ayoka?
No se. I am unsettled… perhaps that is a poor word choice because I feel amazing! I simply don’t know which direction this new me will take. I seldom know what day it is and those days speed by in technicolor. We continue to homeschool and my son has now…
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Continue reading →: My Son is 14 Today
Today is my son’s 14th birthday. I have mixed feelings… Of course I am joyous that he is celebrating another year of life. I left the states to ensure that. However, he is a teenager and all that comes with it! He is a young 14 and still finds joy…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Bedside Baptist
Research on the religious views of Millenials (ages 18 – 33) revealed that a big chunk do not report a religious affiliation: about 29 percent. This is a huge shift from older generations. Younger Americans link organized religion to war and unrest in the world. Obviously they’re paying attention. Most…
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Continue reading →: My Grandma Has Alzheimer’s
This year she will be 94 years old. She is in great health, albeit a bit thin. Amy Scroggins is the matriarch of our family. She is the only surviving child of her parent’s 11 children. She raised nine children (seven boys) with my Grandfather in southern Maryland, outliving him…
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Continue reading →: Two years and counting
Twenty-six year old Breonna Taylor was killed in her apartment on March 13, 2020. She and her boyfriend were sleeping when plain-clothes police stormed in with a no-knock warrant. Her boyfriend thought they were intruders and shot one in the leg. Breonna was shot six times and died on the…
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Continue reading →: Stranger Fruit
In 2022, our fruit doesn’t hang from Southern trees. It lies rotting in streets, alleys and fields. We seldom know who plucked the precious fruit… or it goes unpunished.
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Continue reading →: Mist Rising
I was in the sea when I first felt the connection. The teal water surrounding me…And everything in its wake. Mist rises and disappears intoPalm trees and verdant jungle.Peals of children’s laughter break through theCall and response of the waves. The tide roseAnd lapped the shore.It climbedStill higherThreatening our temporary…
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Continue reading →: Be the Match
I found this draft post from 2015. ******************************** About two weeks ago, I received devastating news. It’s taken me this long to process it and finally, share. I learned that my teen-aged stem cell recipient died. She rallied after a year which is an important milestone for transplant recipients. She…
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Continue reading →: Heads Up
Last night, my children and I were playing Heads Up and we stumbled upon a Black Excellence stack. I’m not sure if it was a special, limited to Black History Month, or what, but we decided to check it out…(it was awesome by the way, hope it’s still there). One…
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Continue reading →: Passion Project
Many people don’t know that I am the executive director of a non-profit based in Delaware called Empowering Single Moms, Inc. I am that behind-the-scenes person who maintains the website, conducts intakes, brainstorms, creates content and strategic plans. Dr. Crystal Edwards is the face and personality and my long-time college…
- 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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