Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
Wow, Stardew Valley is a decade old? So wild what an influence itβs had on the rise of cozy gaming.
Ha! Thatβs another way to qualify π
You donβt get your official Old-Ass Parent badge in the mail until youβre trying to ease a child into bed and you accidentally wake them up with some part of your body cracking very loudly.
Might complete my auntie transformation and start carrying a tube of lotion around with me everywhere. In my defense though, itβs like -5% humidity where I live.
Both of my sisters were Girl Scouts, I know these cookie boxes used to be way bigger. Still got my Thin Mints though.
Very true, and thank you!
I just got invited to my first momβs group, which feels sort of like being tapped for a very uncool secret society π
Was there ever any follow up on Curling Baby? I feel not enough.
I realized today that it had been over a year since I last backed up my WIP, so paying it forward as your periodic reminder from the universe to save your project.
Soul-weary.
Every jobs report is like look, we wrecked the economy, but we swear thatβs a good thing
This halftime show is so much fun, bro. Like imagine not being able to enjoy this
These Super Bowl commercials are recession indicators
A tzatziki for loaded Mediterranean sweet potato fries
I know this dip recipe didnβt just tell me to grate a zucchini β how about I chop it into small pieces and we call it a day.
Somehow my baby has made it halfway round the sun already π
Itβs clichΓ© to call it the hardest, most beautiful endeavor Iβve ever chosen, but what about parenting isnβt a clichΓ©? Constantly stunned, honored, and in love with being his mother.
(And letβs be real, also heinously exhausted lol.)
Every four years I try to remember the difference between pair skating and ice dancing, and I always end up having to look it up.
My (non-Black) spouse was talking about something unrelated to me and said, βI just generally think Black women are right about everything.β
And I was all, You beautiful, sanity-saving human, you.
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Why does the Messages app not have an Olympic rings emoji? Grave oversight.
You will have to man the plane yourself though the publisher will not be paying for it nor piloting it
We don't need book reviews. What if we skywrite the best lines from our books in the air? Everybody gets one loop-de-loop in the airplane
Ok this is hilarious though
Curling Baby first official hero of the 2026 Winter Olympics
Spice the frog is on the ground painting a green picture of a frog. Words say: make the art you want to make
just make the thing π¨ πΆ βοΈ π
A key point of why misogynoir kicks in so hard for media examples where a Black woman is portrayed as beautiful & desirable is because any situation in which folks are depicted as to be cherished, not just consumed/used, indicates a level of humanity assigned to them.
Antiblackness abhors that.
Synchronicity ππΎ Thanks for the reshare
The little guy has been sooo sweet lately hanging out/napping with me in bed while I finish getting through the flu.
here's what you do
you just fold it in