Did Y'all See the 25th Anniversary Cover of J. D. Robb's Naked in Death?

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY, BOO!

Happy Tuesday Motivation!

It's okay to...

...CHANGE and decide who you want to be TODAY

...EVOLVE and take steps towards becoming who you want to be TOMORROW

...LET GO of things and situations that held you back YESTERDAY

Besides, LIFE IS LIFE.  You can't waste too much time getting in your own way, right?

#MarchMysteryMadness Announcement Video for the 2020 (The Theme is the Number 5, Eh!)

{FAUXCAST} CHOP IT UP: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

#ReadSoulLit Read-Along Timemafacation w/ The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts Jr.

Closing January Library Visit

Man, oh man how I love the library.  Isn’t the library great?  I couldn’t imagine a world without libraries, and am always stunned when one is close to shutting down.  It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me when they do.  Well, I guess bureaucratic mess is mostly to blame.  Anyway, I’m getting off track.  The point is that Thursday I moseyed on down to the library to look for something to read–even though I have 1,001 unread books on my shelves.  And because I stay in there and scanning shelf after shelf for new discoveries, here’s what I found… 

Long Distance Love by Marita Golden

"A woman flees the South of the 1920's to join the Black migration Northward, marries a black rationalist and has a daughter, who returns to the South to fight for civil rights and find her own identity"

Flight of the Blackbird by Faye McDonald Smith

"Members of the Black professional elite in Atlanta, Mel and Builder Burke work hard and enjoy the benefits of private school for their daughter and two vacations a year, but their dream begins to fade when Mel loses her job and Builder's business crumbles."

Happy Tuesday to the Underdogs, Eh?

Easily our anthem for 2020.  So come on Alicia Keys with the new music!  And it's right on time for many of us, right?  

You know, matters are already hard enough as we all try to create opportunities in our lives.  We have our good days.  We have our bad days.  We have days of clarity.  Then we have days of confusion.  We have days we are productive.  And days where we can barely get out of our heads to move.  Then there are days where we don't think we'll make it at all.  Followed by days where the silver lining is too sharp to ignore.