• Grocery Haul: July 2018

    Grand total: $85.50 This is a bit more than I usually spend, but given that I’m working in the library every day during the week, I bought a lot of snacks like raisins, dates, nuts, trail mix and instant coffee.  The nuts especially are relatively more expensive than the other things that I bought.     […]

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  • Therapy for Black Girls x Myleik Teele

      My pretend big sister, Myleik Teele, recently had Dr. Joy Harden Bradford PhD of Therapy for Black Girls as a guest on her My Taught You podcast.  I’m a strong advocate for therapy, individual and group, so when I heard that this collaboration was happening, my inner fangirl perked up.  The way that Myleik […]

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  • My Trip to Peru in Food

    School is out and so am I.  I’ve noticed that I seem to go through these ebbs and flows in my life when there are years when I do lots of traveling and then years when I am in the US full time.  This also mirrors when I have at least one of the following […]

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  • The Only Good Travel Ban(d)

    After speed grading my student’s final papers and submitting the first iteration of my qualifying exam bibliography, I took off for a week-long trip to Cuba to arrange things for fieldwork next year. This was a work trip (but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t avail myself of many a mojito).  When I […]

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