Friday Focaccia ndlela October 5, 2024 General The joy of fall it not being so damn hot/humid is that I can bake bread again. This focaccia was baked with a few sun dried tomatoes and capers and brushed with a garlic/rosemary (plant-based) butter mix. ... Read More...
Quarter-Finalists! ndlela September 2, 2024 General In the spirit of celebrating wins of every size, I got an email from the 2024 The Big Break Screenwriting Contest letting me know that I was a quarter-finalist for my short script Subway Weed. Woo hoo! I lik... Read More...
Drink and a Jazz ndlela August 22, 2024 My Photos, My Videos, My Work Drinks near the UN then trip to Williamsburg for the first time in more than 17 years in July. ... Read More...
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Year Begins ndlela July 20, 2024 My Writings Photo by Sheila Maldonado We were getting some relief from the holiday weekend heatwave earlier in the month when Sheila talked about how Saturday July 20th, 2024 was the first journal entry date of Octavi... Read More...
Sunflowers ndlela July 17, 2024 My Photos, My Work Seen on my afternoon walk. Neighborhood sunflowers several blocks away from each other. ... Read More...
July 4th Bronx Street Fireworks ndlela July 8, 2024 My Videos, My Work July 4th is a fireworks holiday. Fireworks are illegal in New York State unless you have a permit. So of course the spirits of resistance means there are fireworks galore when the 4th comes around. It got wa... Read More...
30th Anniversary of Freedom Day! ndlela April 27, 2024 General, My Writings Happy Freedom Day!! It is crazy to think that 30 years have passed already. 30 years ago, twenty-year-old me voted for the first time on 26 April 1994 during the first democratic election in South Africa.... Read More...
Attempted Solar Eclipse Shot ndlela April 22, 2024 My Videos, My Work I wasn't able to get it together to find glasses for the eclipse so I experienced it poorly through my phone.... Read More...
Happy 420 2024 ndlela April 20, 2024 General Happy 420! There has been lots of progress across the world around decriminalizing weed and still people are being arrested for buying, selling and consuming weed. Things are still a mess in New York Ci... Read More...
Earthquake 2024 ndlela April 19, 2024 General, My Photos Two weeks ago - Friday, April 5, 2024, at 10:34 a.m. - the magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit. It felt like the washer-dryer units that are not allowed in the building that people sometimes have anyway. During the... Read More...