by Sherring D.
I am a freaking cliché thanks to this damn pandemic. Excessive online shopping, cooking, baking, drinking, exercising, protests, plant babies, alternating between being glued to CNN or binge-watching popular series.
Categories: Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Cliché, Pandemic, Pandemic Baking, Pandemic Shopping
by Sherring D.
I don’t usually gravitate towards psychological thrillers. I’m unsure about the reason. I enjoy them, even if a majority of the time I figure out the plot before it’s revealed. Things unfolded slowly and kept me guessing. The only part that felt rushed to me is the obligatory explanation of the villain’s backstory. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but it explained a lot and allowed for the book to progress as it did.
Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book nerd, Book Reaction, book review, fiction, Goodreads, thriller
by Sherring D.
King’s Hawaiian rolls can be enjoyed with or without butter. Straight out of the fridge or warmed slightly in the toaster. More often than not, I’m too greedy to wait for the toaster and eat it chilly. A bad habit I have is putting a smattering of butter, taking a bite, then adding more butter to take another bite. Unhealthy, I know, but we all have our vices. It could be drugs!
Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: bread, Comfort Food, food, King's Hawaiian, Oprah, rolls
by Sherring D.
I am a published writer in an anthology with Nikki Giovanni, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Kevin Powell, and over a hundred other writers. 2020: The Year That Changed America has changed my life.
Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Anthology, book, Workshop, Writer, writing
by Sherring D.
I quarantined alone this whole pandemic. I spent every holiday alone in this living room. Struggling to stay positive, on Easter, my birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas, I selected a pretty, colorful outfit—with heels and dangly earrings, and a crown on my birthday—cooked a feast grand enough for relatives you see only once a year and want to impress, grabbed my selfie-stand and ringlight, set my phone’s timer and acted as Creative Director of my own photoshoot. My food, my smile and I look damn good in the photos. Make no mistake: there were tears before and after. Each. And. Every. Time.
Categories: Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things • Tags: 2020, Coronavirus, New Year, New Year's Eve, self care, Survive
by Sherring D.
If there’s a booklover in your life, I, a book lover, can help you for this Christmas or any other gift-giving holiday.
Categories: Goodreads, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book accessories, Book Lover, Bookish Things, Booklover Gifts, Books, Gift Guide, Gifts
by Sherring D.
I don’t care if the last episode I watched was the season finale or the series finale, I’m missing the characters, plot twists, great dialogue, writing, cinematography, lighting, bomb outfits, enviable hair styles, steamy sex scenes, stuck-in-your-head soundtrack, relatable themes, podcast recaps, WTF moments, and group text chats about these shows.
Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Binge-watch, Good watch, Premium Cable, tv shows
by Sherring D.
No real self-respecting book lover abuses books. By abuse, I mean crack the spine, mark it up, rip pages on purpose or by accident, toss around carelessly, and most definitely do not dog ear pages. Only monsters do that.
Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Book nerd, Book Things, Bookish Things, Bookmarks, Books, reading
by Sherring D.
I usually don’t like second-person narration, but the memoir also doubles as a letter to his mother, almost a love letter even. Even though she was abusive, he loved and loves her still and wishes to tell her all he experienced and went through growing up as a young Black man in America. Southern America. “I looked like a big, dark, black man since I was an eleven-year-old boy.” As a teen and a passenger in his mother’s car, a police officer pulled her over but asked for his ID, assuming he was an adult. Thank goodness his mother had the wherewithal to know her rights and to inform the cops that the passenger was not only her son, but a minor.
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Stories, book review, Goodreads, memoir, Nonfiction
