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Why Luke Cage is a Symbol of White Privilege

I have seen a few posts floating around about Luke Cage over the last couple of weeks. I’m on episode 10 myself, so I have a little ways to go. The posts I’ve seen have predominantly been shared by white folks, and the reasoning has been, essentially, that Luke Cage is SO BLACK. It’s awesome […]

Bucket List – 100 places I want to see

I’ve been thinking for quite some time that there are just SO many places I want to see for myself, I can’t even think of an organized way in which to attack my wish list. Being a Virgo, I am left with the option of making a list and crossing things off. Maybe if you’ve […]

Letter, July 21, 2016

Dear you, I hope you’re feeling better today. I am feeling nostalgic this week. On Monday, the sky was that perfect summer blue and it was filled with big July puffy clouds. The locusts were singing, the trees are at the height of their greenness, and I was transported immediately back to my childhood and […]

A Special #Tweetdiner to support one of our own

The Twitter chat I co-founded called #Tweetdiner has never been quite like other chats. First of all, for some reason, most chats don’t incorporate digital food fights. Clearly they are the weird ones. #Tweetdiner never really had any particular topic, except on rare occasions. Rather, the chat has mostly been about friends getting together and […]

Six Years In, I’m Done with the Social Media Game

Six years ago today, I wrote my first blog post. It was not here. It was at a little Blogger site called The Real Mad Man. I had started tweeting a little beforehand. My reasons for joining Twitter were pretty simple. I had been invited to talk about social media before a group of manufacturers […]

#ForTheHealthOfIt

I’d like to announce a hashtag I am starting that I hope catches on. It’s called, as you might have guessed from my subject line, #ForTheHealthOfIt. I was inspired by one last conversation I saw after millions of others that went something like this. Person A: It is 11:30 and I am having my 15th […]