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Middle Name

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?Currently I have no middle name. My full name is Akilah Monifa. My name at birth was Elizabeth Ann Thompson. I was named after my maternal grandmother Elizabeth Ann Perry.

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Question I hate to be asked

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. “How’s your day going?” It’s a learned perfunctory question that really is rhetorical. Folks asking aren’t really interested or listening for a true response other than the perfunctory “good, and yours?” And I don’t know how to give an honest meaningful answer to a stranger.

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Failure?

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? My car was repossessed. For about a minute I thought of myself as a failure, not responsible, not taking care of of business, not a good financial steward. Then I realized the gift: I was relived of the financial drain of the […]

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My Autobiography

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I am a 68 year-old retired Blesbian Blerd mother of 3, grandmother of 1, writer/journalist/author/Substacker/podcaster/blogger/Alexa developer/performer.

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It was hard to say good-bye

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. The transition from high school, living with my parents to college, living in a dormitory and sharing a bedroom and bathroom was a phase in my life that was difficult to say goodbye to. I moved from a small city, Huntsville, Alabama to […]

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