Simply getting up stretching my back stretching my hamstrings before marching in place for 5 minutes my mind actually perks up to allow me to settle down. I can focus my thoughts to produce words of encouragement and kindness. I choose to start my day on a positive note and keep it going throughout the … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd…Is Walking On ??
"But one hundred years later (All right), the Negro still is not free. (My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. (Hmm) One hundred years later (All right), the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty … Continue reading TNFro Is Reading…Reflecting on MLK, Manifestation of the Dream, RIP Shabba Do, Chattabook Additions(republished from Jan 18 2021)
What do you do if you have a lot to say? When the thoughts are tumbling over and over in your mind, screaming to get out... Well if the thoughts are commanding in nature, you may want to drop in on your psychiatrist and get a medication adjustment. Or you create a Podcast like mine. … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd Is Reading and Streaming Snowpiercer
First Official Full Podcast of the New Year!! I have no reason to be sad or mad...well except with RONA and governmental inaction... I am being kind to my mind by trying to make sense of conservative backlash. Feels as if we are back in the 1950s or a scene from Footloose. I talk about … Continue reading TNFro Is Reading…First Podcast of the New Year!!! Fussing About COVID, News, Book Banning, Streaming Amazing TV, Reading from Four Bridges
Today was cold and dreary and I refuse to be sad that it seriously was a soup and pajama day. Ethel and her sister…#cutetrickery Ethel and I have taken naps after replenishing my propane at #EldersAceHardware for my fire pit. It was cool that the refill was only $16 and my 2017 F-150 still gets … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd is Chillaxin
I start this chilly Friday morning doing what I do most every morning. Get In My Belly I grind my coffee wait for it to Drip finish. I feed my dog and take my meds. I scan the paper timesfreepress.com, skipping over something stupid that a state representative has said. I skip over the fact … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd Is Listening…But That Doesn’t Necessarily Mean I Believe Anything You Have To Say
Do You Even know what the Middle Passage is? Slave Ship, packed with my ancestors Did you know the arrival of 20 Angolans in August of 1619 arrived 1 full year before the Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock and would spark race based slavery that would define race relations for another 400 years and we … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd Is Reading The 1619 Project And Writing A Prospective As A Descendant Of The Middle Passage Victims
I just realized my featured image will tick off any conservative that wants to suppress the BLM message and opinion of anyone of color. Well stop reading here because you are going to hate most of what I have to say then. The idea of censorship and book banning in 2022 is so repulsive to … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd, Is Adding More Books To Her Banned Booklist, An Unintended Effect of Right Wing Nonsense. Dear Karens, Have A Seat
Seek Joy By habit every day I get the local paper, Times Free Press, read Garfield and my horoscope. I then scan the headlines. Read non-triggering stories which are very few and far between. I made the mistake of reading too closely about a group of conservative parents in Hamilton County that wants to have … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd Is…Aggressively Seeking Joy By Reading Garfield Comic Strip and My Horoscope
Still moving content to Anchor.fm So lowkey, I do own several tiaras and matching bling, don't judge, and celebrated my 40th birthday in London during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Too Boujee and so much fun. So me posting an episode specifically talking about an unlikely melanated royal during the run up to the Queen Elizabeth … Continue reading The Melanated Nerd Is…Lowkey Anglophile and Q2 Platinum Preparation
