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Bodies Are Annoying (And So Is LA Fitness)
I went on a long walk a few days ago. Over three miles. I’d been writing all day and, though it was my day off from working out, I was restless. Plus, outside is so interesting. I live near a mountain,...
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This isn’t a gripe or complaint. My body is mine, and I embrace all of it. I stopped comparing myself to “normal,” “common,” or any other standard back in my teens. I stepped outside of that long ago....
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Gifts from an Ancient Sea 🐚
While in Mexico, I was crossing my hotel’s unpaved parking lot by the ocean when I looked down and spotted something in the dirt that was nearly a million years old: A gastropod fossil. What a...
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I Lost My Glasses and Everything Escalated
My daughter and I have been in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico the last few days. I have so much to talk about. But first, I need to zoom in on what we both agree was the most memorable hour, 😆. We were...
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Walk with me...
When I get some mental space, I want to write about what it is to walk like me. Slowly, yet I can walk for miles. Shaky. Uneven. Maybe a slight limp. Careful. Stiff. Robotic. 🤖 Achingly conscious of...
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Practice makes fearless
It’s important to stay in practice and on form. Two years ago (maybe 3 now?), I felt vulnerable as a single black woman with a child in Phoenix, AZ. So, well, because I am not one to just sit there...
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The Year That Wouldn’t Be Quiet
This year began with the release of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR and then my mom’s passing three days later. I kept going because I knew that’s what my mom would want and expect.✈️ Over 12 months, I’ve been all...
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Unlikeable?...Ok.
Zelu, the main character of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, is based on me, yeah. But she does things I'd never ever do (see the very first few pages...yeah, I don't do that and that,😆). Enduring people griping...
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The Robot
Yesterday, I was doing some exercises before heading to the gym to do my hour in the Stairmaster. I don't know when it happened, but by the time I got to my sit-ups, I was “The Robot”. It’s what I call...
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Adventures in Sedona
Yesterday, Anyaugo and I went on the hunt for some new jewelry. There’s a market at the Oak Creek Overlook Vista near Flagstaff that we found years ago by total accident. I bought my most beautiful...
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The National Book Festival 2025: ...And It Was Good.
I did a panel at the National Book Festival (organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress) in Washington D.C. with fellow writer the Amazing V.E. Schwab and it was fantastic.It was my 1st public...
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The Clipse
Yesterday, I went with my daugther Anyaugo to my first rap concert since Disable Planets in 1993. Pusha T and Malice as Clipse (or is it THE Clipse?). It was fantastic! The pivotal year of 1993 was...
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Last night after 2 AM the loudest most violent storm I’ve experienced since moving here passed through. High winds, constant crashing bright lightning, intense rain (man, it barely ever rains here, let...
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Early Morning Walk
My daughter’s back from her 3weeks in the UK and her jet lag had her up early. She woke me up at 6AM and said, “Let’s go for a walk!” I’m a morning person, so I instantly woke up, opened my eyes,...
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I Side with the Owls
Excuse the roughness of this post. I've got work to do and I don't have much time to polish this essay. I hope I'm clear enough, despite how this essay jumps around. Either way, you'll be alright:So......
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🤖 I have one of those Dyson fan and air purifiers. It has a lot of personality, including freaking out when the air isn’t immaculate.Soooo, I was sitting on the floor signing tip-ins (these are pages...
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Stories Everywhere
This is a long post of small stories… Because I’m home for these months, I’m noticing these small little narratives. Yesterday was full of them. First the power went out in the morning. This led to...
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Golden Girl: Eulogy of Dr. Helen Ijeoma Okorafor (nee Okwaraeleonu)
Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Given on February 7, 2025 “A Golden smile from a Golden Girl of the games.” That’s a quote from a 1965 news article about my mom. It features a fresh-faced, grinning photo of...
View ArticleIt's Bigger Than a Label...
I have spent years telling people that I write africanfuturism. I do not write and never have written “afrofuturism”, a reductive and America-centric label that gets slapped on all things black and...
View ArticleThe Path of the WHO FEARS DEATH audiobook
For years, I endured people attacking me because my first audiobook was narrated by a white woman with pretty bad “African” accent. This was WHO FEARS DEATH and this was back in 2010. Let me explain...
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