Ruby

I wrote this poem for my mother a few weeks ago. She passed away on January 9, 2020, and I have written many words with her in mind. However, to celebrate Mother’s Day, I wanted to share the words I wrote in her honor that did not come from a place of sadness. I’m a mother myself, so I want to have more smiles than tears today. Also, for your enjoyment, I’m sharing a song by Lenny Kravitz called Thinking of You that he wrote in honor of his mother.

I miss you Ruby.

Love,

Tara– Your Tareddy Bear

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Book Review: Seven Days In June by Tia Williams

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Based on reviews and feedback from a friend of mine, Seven Days in June is a book that folks either love or hate. For me, I loved it. My friend? Not so much. 

My Thoughts

The prologue and the first chapter introduce us to Eva by way of her near-death experience via sex toy and her career as an author of vampire/witch erotica. I like that the author starts the book off that way because it gives you an idea of what you’re getting into right off the bat. There’s sex. There’s some quirkiness. There’s trauma. There’s a little bit of a supernatural element there, even though none of the characters are witches or vampires (Not literally anyway. Metaphorically, an argument could be made.)

Shane is introduced a few chapters into the book. As much as I wanted to hate him, I found myself falling in love with him, too. He’s an “alpha-hole,” a term one character used as another way to say “sexy jerk.”

April Book Club Pick: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

First of all, I started a book club! I created a book club on the Fable app. Initially, I tried to get a few friends together in person to read books and hang out, but it’s hard getting people together. Still, I want to have a little community of like-minded people reading and commenting on the same book. So, I learned about Fable and decided to start a club there. My book club is geared towards black women because I’m a black woman. It’s the Ebony Page Turners and if you’re interested in joining, click below. You’ll get $5 towards an eBook purchase if you use my link. >>> https://fable.co/club/ebony-page-turners-with-letarawrites-302800552632?referralID=DjCiap4j30 

My book club is also on Goodreads >>> https://fable.co/club/ebony-page-turners-with-letarawrites-302800552632?referralID=DjCiap4j30

Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz

I’ll keep this one short.

It took me a long time to finish this story. It was beautifully written. It was heavy. There’s nothing lighthearted about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. I really don’t even know much about it except for the fact that it happened back in the 1940s and a lot of innocent people were enslaved and tortured due to prejudice. And my summary of those events is overly simplistic. 

Book Review: The Teacher by Freida McFadden

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This book had my full attention and left me shaking my head in disbelief. Here’s the blurb:

Lesson #1: Trust no one.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

I have a book club on Fable that I just started and we are about to be wrapping up our thoughts on this book very soon. If you’re a woman of color and you love books, join the Ebony Page Turners on the Fable app.

Brain Dump: An Artist’s Artist

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What’s your dream job?

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I have a little news I want to share, which I will do toward the end of this post. You can read everything or you can just scroll down to the bottom, whichever suits your fancy.

I have so much love and admiration for those artists who can see themselves doing nothing but the things that they know. I have even more admiration for the artists who actually make a living doing what they do best: making art. Whether it is physical art like painting, sculpting, or designing, or a more intellectual one like writing stories or producing music, it is hard as hell to make a living doing that.

Brain Dump: The Challenge of Making Decisions

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What are your biggest challenges?

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I have a few challenges. I’m racking my brain trying to pick just one, so I guess I’ll go with the obvious one. Indecisiveness. Analysis paralysis. Overly ambitiousness. ADHD. 

I want to do everything. I want to learn everything. I want to go everywhere. But I get easily distracted sometimes. It wasn’t until I was almost 30 that I learned I possibly had a case of ADHD. When I started attending counseling sessions and took a few screeners, it became obvious that that’s what it was. And it explained so much.

Book Review: Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

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It’s almost a new year and I wanted to post at least one more book review before this year ends. It was an exhausting read. I’ll jump right into it.

Quite frankly, I can sum up my thoughts about this memoir in just a few short words: She annoyed me.

Brain Dump: What’s Done in the Dark

This particular string of words is going to center on things done in the dark. This past week, which is the week before Thanksgiving, has been rife with piping hot celebrity tea and that tea happens to coincide with a couple of books I’ve been reading/listening to. Of course, this isn’t a celebrity gossip blog or a news blog. It is a blog about life…in a few words. And I read books and write my thoughts on them, and I write poetry and occasionally publish it. Here are the books I’m reading: Deep Throat Diva and Retribution, both are written by Cairo.

It’s my birthday again! Where have I been?

It’s been a minute. I still haven’t been to the point where I can invest as much love into this blog again the way I’d like to, but I’m still here! Today marks the end of my birthday weekend. It wasn’t super exciting, but I am grateful. 

I took a few minutes on my actual birthday to look at myself in the mirror. I looked at my now 34-year-old self and saw where I had aged a little. The circles around my eyes are a little more pronounced now than they were back when I started this blog when I was 26. I saw my face. And I said to myself, “This is 34. I look pretty good.”

New Offering

Happy October! I have still been working on some things outside of this blog, but I have not forgotten it! I’ve been going through some things and embracing all of my gifts, which leads me to the post I just shared from my blog The Gifted Reader where I discuss tarot and spirituality. Check out my services and explore the rest of the blog!

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