The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing has a title that screams out “read me”. So I did! I happened upon it while browsing library e-books to download to my Kindle and overall I wasn’t disappointed. I did find it tediously boring in the first few chapters as the plot was being built. I couldn’t bring myself […]
Dark Day – English Cadbury Banned in the US
In June 2012, I wrote that Hershey’s chocolate bars do not deserve to be called chocolate. Amongst other descriptions, I wrote that it has the texture of grainy clay. It evokes the desire to vomit within a couple bites. Its problem was that it is an over-processed confectionary. I concluded that post by saying that […]
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Some books have been on my to-read list and my physical bookshelf for so long I don’t even know what prompted me to pick them up in the first place. This is one of them. The Namesake, published in 2003, is the first novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian-American author who had already won the […]
Our Hypocritical World
I’ve been commenting all over my personal Facebook page this past week or so about the double standard the media takes in it’s approach to reporting the news. Like it’s something new, right? It all started when somebody, presumably a white supremacist, ie. local-bred American terrorist, exploded a bomb outside an NAACP office in Colorado […]
The Black Nod
Today, I was walking down one of the hospital halls and as I reached the intersection, a Black man who was walking by gave me The Nod and what seemed to be a peace sign. There was no one else behind me. Yes, I checked. I gave him a sort-of-nod back impulsively and wondered if […]
New Year Resolutions
My New Year Resolutions were to have no resolutions. My sixth day of the new year resolutions however are as follows: Read more non-fiction books. Eat more vegetables and less animal protein. Clean up the clutter in my life, physically & psychologically. Think twice before any purchase; spending diet time. Let it go!
Top 10 Influential Books in my Life
I usually ignore social media challenges but today I was challenged by a good friend on Facebook to share my ten most influential books. This friend likes to read the kind of non-fiction books that a college professor of any discipline would choose to assign for his courses. As you can clearly see from my […]
My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni
Now that I own a Kindle, I am taking advantage of my Amazon Prime perks which includes Kindle First, a program where I’m eligible to download one of four editor choice pre-release books for free per month. This was one of them. I had not previously heard of the author Robert Dugoni a trained lawyer […]
Back to Las Vegas, 2014 Edition
I really don’t need to be going back to Las Vegas. Twice is enough. Yet, something tells me I have not seen the last of Vegas. My visit this year was prompted by a friend, a former colleague, who had been dead-set on celebrating her fortieth birthday in Las Vegas. She had been harping on […]
A Late Afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
I went to Philadelphia to browse the Paul Strand: A Master of Photography exhibition. It was a cold winter day. I took these pictures as I was leaving, the sun already beginning to set and casting colour into the sky. This is the Ben Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia skyline as seen from the top […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.