Sherring D.

There Goes My Sock

05/04/2019 by Sherring D.

“Fuck your flight,” seemed to be the Lyft driver’s nonverbal message with his 45 mph driving even though we told him we were trying to catch a flight in a bit more than an hour. I knew I should’ve went straight to the airport from my place, but nooooo, I had this romantic notion of riding to the airport with my new boyfriend. So after a train and bus ride from Brooklyn to East Flatbush, here I was en route […]

Categories: Fabulousness, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Becoming, birthday, family, Niagara Falls, trip

Panties

03/24/2019 by Sherring D.

For several months, I’d been on the hunt for plain cotton panties. By plain, I don’t mean boring and nondescript. I mean 100% cotton panties. Not a cotton blend. No nylon, lycra, polyester, spandex, elastane or whatever the fuck else is in underwear these days. Plain cotton, preferably with a print or pattern, like stripes, polka dots and animal print. Something cute or funky. I still wanted to feel sassy underneath my clothes, without it having to be a […]

Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Cotton, Lingerie, Panties, Period, Shopping, Underwear, Victoria's Secret

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Christmas in March

03/21/2019 by Sherring D.

Well, it’s March. No better time to take down and put away my Christmas tree. Relax. It’s not what you’re thinking. A dried out pine or fir tree was not sprinkling its dead needles all over my living room rug. Au contraire, my first ever Christmas tree of my adult life was a book Christmas tree. In 2017, I was tagged by at least two different people in the comment section of separate posts showcasing Christmas trees made of stacks […]

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book Christmas Tree, Books, Christmas, Christmas Tree, Pinterest Fail

Sherring’s Goodreads: My Sister, the Serial Killer

03/13/2019 by Sherring D.

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite My rating: 3 of 5 stars My Sister, the Serial Killer. Fiction or nonfiction, how could that title not entice you? Not to mention the book cover. A woman, with a gorgeous dark brown complexion, dazzling white teeth, a head-wrap and round mirrored sunglasses, looking a little off to the side. To be quite honest, until I sat down to write the description of the cover, I had not noticed the reflection […]

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, fiction, Goodreads

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That Time I Met Toni Morrison

03/01/2019 by Sherring D.

February 18th was Toni Morrison’s birthday. My social media feed had an endless parade of birthday shout outs to the revered writer of dozens of novels and winner of the Nobel Prize and other awards. Some pages posted the same pictures, while others posted unique pictures, some that I’ve never seen before. A surprise to me, and my new second favorite of Ms. Morrison is a black and white photograph of her dancing in happy abandonment at what appears to […]

Categories: Fabulousness, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Girls Rock, Black Pride, Novels, Toni Morrison, Writer

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Sherring’s Goodreads: The World According to Fannie Davis

02/26/2019 by Sherring D.

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis My rating: 4 of 5 stars As I was reading the last pages of The World According to Fannie Davis, the palm of my right hand began to itch. I smiled. In Haitian culture, an itchy hand means that you’re getting money. It can also mean that you’re losing money, depending on the hand. I can never remember which, so I called my […]

Categories: Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Goodreads, Lottery, memoir, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Numbers, review

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Sherring’s Goodreads: Nappily Ever After

01/21/2019 by Sherring D.

Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas My rating: 2 of 5 stars Nappily Ever After has been on my TBR list for over ten years, spanning back to my days of working at Borders Bookstore. There were talks of then “It Girl” Halle Berry adapting it into a film. For whatever reason, not only was the movie not produced, but I never got around to reading the novel. It faded from memory and sunk to oblivion in my TBR […]

Categories: Goodreads, Goodwatch, Uncategorized • Tags: #BlackLove, book review, book-to-movie, Goodreads, Nappily Ever After, Read Soul Lit, reading, Soul Lit

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Hopeless

01/21/2019 by Sherring D.

My face was burning with embarrassment, not to mention glistening with sweat. Why couldn’t I manage to do what seemed to come naturally to everyone else, even the first-timers? Never mind the first-timers, I saw children as young as three or four years old, not only holding their balance, but whizzing past me. Where were their parents? I’d consider it a small victory if I could stand for at least twenty seconds. Hell, I’d take ten seconds. Anything more than […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Family Trip, Park City, Ski, skiing

Stuck in a Rut

01/18/2019 by Sherring D.

After MONTHS of not writing and barely even reading (missed my Goodreads goal again), I clawed myself out of the rut I somehow found myself stuck in. Well, no, not somehow. There’s always an ebb and flow to the motivation that sparks me to pursue my creative outlets of reading and writing. Blame it on the weather. Blame it on my dissatisfaction with my career. Blame it on a lackluster social and love life. Blame it on the lure of […]

Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: depression, reading, self care, writing

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Author Archives: Sherring D.

There Goes My Sock

Panties

Christmas in March

Sherring’s Goodreads: My Sister, the Serial Killer

That Time I Met Toni Morrison

Sherring’s Goodreads: The World According to Fannie Davis

Sherring’s Goodreads: Nappily Ever After

Hopeless

Stuck in a Rut