Category: 2020s

Trula Earthgarden January 2024

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52. I am now 52 years old! 52!!! Made it another year Woooooooo-hooooooo! I had a nice quiet day at home. We might go out tomorrow but I just wasn’t up to it today at all, I felt really tired and worn out all day. Must be the 52ness! My daughter came to see me […]

Tina Turner 2023 still

Tina Turner: Rest in Peace

Ironically I saw the news on youtube while watching an old video of Proud Mary! I was watching the clip of Beyonce dancing as a little girl that then showed how she used the same moves in her epic Super Bowl performance with Brun Mars. Something about it reminded me of Tina Turner, who I […]

Booby Lee erroneously saying Korea didn't have slaves

Bobby Lee Ignorant of Korean Slavery

I read this book in college once that basically said, Ok Africans had slaves, but in Africa slaves were treated like family! So the African slave traders weren’t the villains for selling people to white people, they didn’t know the white slave owners would do all that raping and whipping and tearing families apart. The […]

Jen Angel, the founder of Oakland bakery Angel Cakes, inside her bakery in March 2016. Credit: Melati Citrawireja

Rest in Peace Jen Angel

Jen Angel has passed away. This is devastating to me. She was well known in the Oakland area as owner of Angel Cakes Bakery, but I knew her from zine stuff here in Ohio. I did not know her well but met her a few times years ago when the Allied Media Conference was still […]

Trula Scott January 2023

My Birthday Month is Complete

Got to see my son Scott this weekend! He came out to see me for my birthday. We had the best time, and now my birthday month is complete! Egypt Simone was so excited to meet Scott also

Trula & Brian January 2023

51st Year Around the Sun

I had a great birthday! Got to see my daughter Iyende and my son Todd, Scott had to work so I’ll see him next week. We watched my favorite movie together (Mad Dog Time AKA Trigger Happy) had a nice dinner and cake, and my kids watched me try to do the ’wipe me down’ […]

Trula January 2023

This…is…a Spartan Birthday!

51 This…is…a Spartan Birthday! Ok real talk 50 kicked my you-know-what, last year was a very hard year for me health-wise, with my raggedy heart. Also my old daddy died, 2 days before my birthday last year, and my brother John eight months before that. I feel like I am still grieving the loss of […]

Jane's Addiction Concert October 2022 Cleveland, Ohio

Brian’s Birthday Concert was a Blast!

My husband Brian’s birthday! Another wonderful weekend with my love. I got him tickets to see Jane’s Addiction on Saturday, October 29th, at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. It was an awesome show! Their set was an hour, but they managed to get in their radio hits plus some songs deep fans know. I wish it had […]