I've been wanting to have a sleeper car train experience. One day I will make it happen. I clicked on this post because today I dropped a post that also included "waiting to exhale" in the title. I guess the Terry McMillan vibe was in the air.
So many things! One, your train ride sounds amazing (I love trains) and want to hear more. Two, would read your essay on your favorite Black pop hits of the ‘80s (that list! And the ‘90s!) and three, I’ve bookmarked your Serena feature to read next — congrats! 🔥
Love a train — I once took a train from Montreal to Vancouver, best sleep 😴 enjoy, Danyel! Beautiful article about Serena, the best to ever do it 🎾 you really captured ‘her regular life’ sitting in that car. ✨
Enjoy the train! I loved doing the cross-west trains and I’m overdue for another ride!
I also loved the Serena profile.
But, we are really in sync today with Terry McMillan! I went to the Bowie, MD Barnes and Noble for the first time last night with Les and I felt like I stepped back into my childhood Borders. Terry is right up front on multiple shelves of Black fiction and nonfiction. Plus, my other faves, the LGBTQ table and the craft magazines right up front, with the music magazines and really all the magazines.A sweet barrista who had a similar Southern background and some dope tea.
She was my first big adult novelist who I saw who made money with books, but also looked like my aunts, not just was adored by them!
I have Amtrak sleeper on my bucket list (I love to move up and down the east coast on it). I’m so glad to know it’s comfy! As for Ms. Terry, I read Disappearing Act as a teenager and whew, Franklin and Zora archetyped themselves into my heart…
My mother let me borrow her copy of "Waiting to Exhale" when I was 10 years old. I've probably re-read it six times (including picking it up when I turned 38 to see how it would hit now that I was the age of the characters and having to put it down because JESUS, it hit too hard nearly 20 years later). But, for better or worse, it formed my ideas on how to build a life (around interests, passions, close bonds with women—because the men came and went).
I'm hoping you made it to Batuqui? It truly is a gem. And I am SO MAD I skipped that Tribe party on Friday—it would have been nice to say "hello" IRL.
Hey you always in love with the way you turn a phrase and make plain what it is! Whatever the subject matter!
Today I was thinking of Serena, and wondering where’s her full throated endorsement for Kamala Harris? It’s common knowledge that she is close to Trumps wife and search as I have I’ve not found a word from her… I’m confused. Surely King Richard’s baby girl knows better… hope all is well. Stay safe.
I've been wanting to have a sleeper car train experience. One day I will make it happen. I clicked on this post because today I dropped a post that also included "waiting to exhale" in the title. I guess the Terry McMillan vibe was in the air.
i think u would love the sleeper. and I'm going to look for your Exhale post.
So many things! One, your train ride sounds amazing (I love trains) and want to hear more. Two, would read your essay on your favorite Black pop hits of the ‘80s (that list! And the ‘90s!) and three, I’ve bookmarked your Serena feature to read next — congrats! 🔥
this comment brings me joy xxoo!
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Love a train — I once took a train from Montreal to Vancouver, best sleep 😴 enjoy, Danyel! Beautiful article about Serena, the best to ever do it 🎾 you really captured ‘her regular life’ sitting in that car. ✨
thank u Jolene! best sleep!
Enjoy the train! I loved doing the cross-west trains and I’m overdue for another ride!
I also loved the Serena profile.
But, we are really in sync today with Terry McMillan! I went to the Bowie, MD Barnes and Noble for the first time last night with Les and I felt like I stepped back into my childhood Borders. Terry is right up front on multiple shelves of Black fiction and nonfiction. Plus, my other faves, the LGBTQ table and the craft magazines right up front, with the music magazines and really all the magazines.A sweet barrista who had a similar Southern background and some dope tea.
She was my first big adult novelist who I saw who made money with books, but also looked like my aunts, not just was adored by them!
ahhhhhh! long live Terry! she gave us all life 💕
I have Amtrak sleeper on my bucket list (I love to move up and down the east coast on it). I’m so glad to know it’s comfy! As for Ms. Terry, I read Disappearing Act as a teenager and whew, Franklin and Zora archetyped themselves into my heart…
My mother let me borrow her copy of "Waiting to Exhale" when I was 10 years old. I've probably re-read it six times (including picking it up when I turned 38 to see how it would hit now that I was the age of the characters and having to put it down because JESUS, it hit too hard nearly 20 years later). But, for better or worse, it formed my ideas on how to build a life (around interests, passions, close bonds with women—because the men came and went).
I'm hoping you made it to Batuqui? It truly is a gem. And I am SO MAD I skipped that Tribe party on Friday—it would have been nice to say "hello" IRL.
Hey you always in love with the way you turn a phrase and make plain what it is! Whatever the subject matter!
Today I was thinking of Serena, and wondering where’s her full throated endorsement for Kamala Harris? It’s common knowledge that she is close to Trumps wife and search as I have I’ve not found a word from her… I’m confused. Surely King Richard’s baby girl knows better… hope all is well. Stay safe.