Dom(o) The Bearded

Yes!

Kiese’s work is so important to me because he helped me to understand the importance of revision. Whether in writing or in the ways that I live, I have learned to be cautious and patient in my revision. Every sentence in life can be a good one with patient cautious revision. @kiese.bsky.social

Zoe Saldana played Nina Simone. I didn’t forget.

I never wanna get out my bed. But I always have to anyway. Why is it only Thursday and NOT FRIDAY?

This is racial battle fatigue.

This season of my life is not pretty. But it’s damn sure productive.

“In a learning environment you are presented with new information which will naturally offend someone in the room. Your offense is not the point. Your participation is the point. But that only works when there is a mutual baseline of respect and decency among the participants.”

You know… For some reason this seems like a really good night for Black people. Ya know??

When Barrack Obama beat john McCain on November 5, 2008 Prof. D. Osei Robertson said in class the next day that “America will never elect another old president after this election”. I can’t wait to see him later this month to tell him that he was wrong in the worst possible way.

Fonzworth… We ain’t forgot about you nigga… #blacksky

Historical research is A LOT.

If there’s ever a time I have something important to do and I don’t do it, the reason is because I got in the bed and went to sleep.

I only got a paragraph out today. But I’m still writing!!

Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy is THE TRUTH!

At a certain point in their development, I expect employees to have the capacity to have productive conversations about the strategic direction of our work.

Today after writing until the coffee shop closed, I pulled into the parking lot at Longhorn to write for a bit longer because I felt like really needed to finish a thought for my literature review. I hope to let the thoughts rest until tomorrow when I can write for a few hours after work.

One of the tough things about writing is that sometimes you won’t be at a stopping point at the time you told yourself you would stop writing. So you’ve got to power through until you get to a better place or risk making a decision with the potential of eroding your progress.

I’ve been forgetting to pair but I’m still out here dissertating.

7 I think.

One of the things about being prophetic is that it demands that you critique even yourself and the institutions and privileges that benefit you.

Today is the:

6th day

in a row that I have written my dissertation.

Today is the:

5th day

in a row that I have written my dissertation.

Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Today is the:

4th day

in a row that I have written my dissertation.

my body: it feels like nighttime
me: it’s 504pm
my body: it feels…let’s go to bed
me: girl no

Today is the:

3rd day

in a row that I have written my dissertation.

Today is the:

2nd day

in a row that I have written my dissertation.

I need to be more consistent in my writing. My goal is to write everyday for 100 days. Even if it’s only a sentence. I want to finish my dissertation and I hope this will be an accountability tool to ensure that I do by December 2025.