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Push through the pain. Wipe away the vomit. Keep going…
I’m all out of words this week… …but I have a video (yay!). There are so many quotable moments in this interview but the title of this post has to be my favorite. Thanks, Aisha Tyler! And Happy Father’s Day to all the Daddies especially the Daddy living in my house! Love you, spouse. Love and…
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Damn you, George R.R. Martin!
Warning: Contains Spoilers Well, like many Game of Thrones fans, I have spent most of this week recovering from probably the most traumatizing thing I have ever seen on television. Sunday’s episode of the HBO show featured the infamous “Red Wedding” where a series of mistakes and bad decisions led to the slaughter of three…
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Filthy Dancing
One of my favorite movies of all time is Dirty Dancing. Don’t judge. I distinctly remember being about nine years old and sitting in my friend Nikki’s room, sneak-watching her teenage sister’s VHS copy of the movie. For two hours, I sat cross-legged with my jaw slack as I gawked at lustful, sweaty, twenty-somethings grinding…
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Run, Girl, Run!
Actor Michael Beach. If you are a connoisseur of African American movies in the 90s B.T.P (Before Tyler Perry), this face probably solicits a litany of emotions. This is the face of the man of cheated on Angela Bassett with a wyatt woman in Waiting to Exhale… Causing her to do this… This…
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Finding representation is like… (Ode to the Agent/Writer Relationship)
The agent/writer relationship is an interesting one. You spend months, years, maybe even decades, pouring your heart and soul into writing a novel. After which you find someone to help you sell it. The publishing industry is set up such that the “someone,” or agent, is the gate keeper to getting published and in most…
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Music and Lyrics
Music is a BIG part of my writing process. If I need to be transported to a particular place or feel a particular emotion, nothing will get me there faster than a good song. I’m not alone. Stephen King, Emily Giffin, Nicholas Sparks and I am sure many, many others all claim music is a…
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Nighttime is the write time
Me at work the next morning after I was up all night writing… Love and Light, Faye
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Walk Beautifully
In 2004, my husband (then boyfriend) and I attended a Martin Luther King celebration at the University of the District of Columbia. It was the beginning of the second semester of our first year of law school and we had no business being anywhere but the library. However, it was also the beginning of our relationship so…
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A Note from a Tiny Human
http://nesreenkabeel.com/ Tonight my littlest, the Peanut, and I built a house out of Legos. We were building it for an alligator (of course) and he was telling me about all the things he wants to be when he grows up. His eyes grew wide and he threw his chubby, little arms in the air and declared, “I want to…
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Sex, Lies and ABC's Scandal
Every Thursday night, I am glued to my television screen watching Scandal, ABCs prime time drama about Olivia Pope (played by Kerry Washington) a political crisis negotiator in Washington, DC. The show is many things. It is thought-provoking, innovative and bold, but the biggest draw of the show is undeniably Olivia’s hot affair with the President (played…
Faye McCray 