Welcome to installment #58 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, a weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and tools for thriving. It’s hand pie week around here. Whether baked, fried, crimped, rolled, store-bought, or handmade, there are no losers in the portable pie game. (Unless you find a chicken bone in…

Welcome to installment #54 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, your weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools. Chile, I made another batch of empanadas the other day. Batch number two. They taste better than they look and go great with a cup of Café Bustelo. For this batch…

I wasn’t expecting her until Sunday, but when I jumped out the shower and into some clothes after Mr. UPS buzzed and fled, there she was, at the top of the stoop under Downstairs Woman’s maxi single-sized package, here to pry open the creative floodgates and end the Age of…

Oh, hey. Welcome to The Breakfast Brief, a check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and tools for coping and thriving. I’ve been gone for a minute, but I’m back like that cousin who only calls when they need something. September is National Suicide Prevention Month. At the end of this sentence…

One of the questions we ask on our traveling Community Literary Therapy Wall is “What does joy mean to you? How does it look, feel, sound, taste?” and I’m always impressed by the vivid descriptions people use to describe joy as a multi-sensory experience. “Homemade gumbo in my slow cooker,”…

Welcome to installment #61 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, a weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools. We back up in this thang. Just in time for Black Folks Month. I needed to let my spirit recharge a bit. I knew I was fucked up in the game…

Welcome to installment #60 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, a weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools. On Sunday, I drove home from Brooklyn to Hampton, Virginia to visit family and support my mother as she recovers from a recent hospitalization. While recharging, helping out with caregiving, and…

Welcome to installment #59 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, a weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and tools for thriving. As part of my weekly GetSomeJoy Twitter Spaces, I’m hosting a mental health check-in and sharing resources with some wonderful folks tonight at 8pm EST with writer and family caregiver…

Welcome to installment #56 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, your weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools. What’s better than vanilla, lemon, and chocolate tarts? Free vanilla, lemon, and chocolate tarts. The surprise and joy of unexpected deliciousness makes the mouthparty more magical. …