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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think his strategy worked! that was such a fun and fruitful era. 🥰

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

reminds me of this photo i took last weekend when i was back home.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

... and who remembers when john p. kee and hezekiah did a verzuz during covid and john p. kee thought he had a shot at "winning?" hezekiah didn't even have to play all his hits...

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you really had to be there. what a time. when hezekiah transitioned from colorblock choir robes to dressing like gospel's bad boy records ceo on the album covers? peak! youtu.be/Rfi64Idrp88?...

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Power Belongs to God

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... still cheaper than a band, tho!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i wound up finding basic economy tix for $400 less than than that. but! i'll eventually have to pay like $200 closer to takeoff for: 1. seat selection on four flights (this is a 1-stop connection situation, 2 flights per leg of trip) 2. checked bags

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had to book a flight-for-two for feb. '27 and i was shopping different airports bc they all seemed... high. went to southwest, against my better judgment. do you know them folks wanted a band for me & my child to fly from nc to mi??? like $1K, USD *seat selection and bags not included, of course*

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I decided to try listening to a new narrative podcast this morning and the narrator is talking to me in second person. TIL I reeeeally don’t like that in a podcast. 🥴

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thanks for sharing this! i love this pairing!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

was she in conversation with Rachel True?? that’s so cool!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dolen is a masterful and, imo, deeply underrated writer. Loved Happy Land and *adored* Take My Hand.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i've been streaming this series with my nana in the room. at first she wasn't interested, bc she finds shows difficult to follow these days, but now she's very much locked in. lol

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think cree and kadeem are reprising their characters best. freddie seems very much like freddie. dwayne seems very much like dwayne.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

every time i see darryl bell in this, i'm impressed. this is the most dramatic acting i've seen him do. he was rarely the straight man on the original ADW.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i can see them not caring about these cameos that mean the world to us original fans, but... it's amazing to see the entire band back together. you can tell Felicia and her team put a ton of love and care into this. they reached out to *and* got commitments from every old cast member they could.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

aw. i'm 3 episodes deep into "a different world" and i love it. it really is meant to pass the torch to these young people. it's an ADW for a streaming generation. i can see it making HBCUs look as attractive to Gen Z/Alpha as the original did for Gen X.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it was a li’l rollercoaster there for a minute! 😂!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good news is: the interview went really well. i'm still coming down from the adrenaline surge that followed all my repressed fangirling. kept it cool on the outside but inside i was like:

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Scrubs: JD and Turk Excited

ALT: Scrubs: JD and Turk Excited

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

got the chance to go turn it around aaaaand there's a hole in the front! omg. start this day over from scratch. lol

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

can't even do nothin' about it until we wrap here. ... it's a wrap dress, btw. so v-cut in the front, v in the back. and i got dressed in the dark. so.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

not me realizing in the control room during a high-profile interview with a guest i consider to be a legend... that i have my dress on backward. y'all.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

kids/students always absorb the tension of that. and a lot of them fall through the sizable gaps.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

society has always expected more from public schools than public schools have been equipped to deliver. society also expects more of parents than parents are equipped to deliver.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

but it’s hard to be an invested parent *and* provide for a family. that has also gotten increasingly difficult since the ‘80s/‘90s, which were the last time when a 40-hour work week covered expenses, potential extracurriculars/tutoring and got you home before bedtime.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hasn’t worked that way since the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, sad to say. and it barely worked that way then. regardless of curriculum quality, teacher investment and retention and school resources, a child with a hands-on parent is always gon’’ get the academic drop on a kid who *only* “goes to school.”

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it’s hard not to assume/hope that’s still how public school works. as someplace where you drop your kids off for 8 hours and they come home more capable.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there are a large swaths of baby Gen X/geriatric millennials who came up during an era where parents dropped kids off in the morning and said, “it’s above me now.”

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will say, as someone born in 1979, who was latchkey from age 8, never had homework checked, flamed out academically from 6th-11th grade & got myself on track just long enough to be admitted to college… some attitudes re:the role of the schools in children’s’ education are generational & familial.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i have a whole other tangent about public schools, resources, neighborhood, segregation (racial, economic, intellectual). but that’s… for another day, perhaps.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it *is* hard! and for people who write personal essays, it’s hard to… idk… censor? important aspects of personal experience. especially over long periods of time.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i totally get that, too. i post a *fraction* of the photos of my kid compared to what i did when she was little. she’s at that “absolutely not.” and “delete it” age and i gotta respect that. 😩😂💕

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i’m not sure they can, and depending on the subject matter, it can be unfair to ask them to.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and best believe: everything i still have posted/public that my daughter has found and read, i have had to answer for. and i will again when she’s 26 and 36 and 46. that’s how this parent shit works. it is perpetual accountability for the past, present and future.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i have scrapped at least three half-written memoir manuscripts because of this. it’s that tension between wanting to write about motherhood but not write about it in a way my daughter will have to engage and defend with peers, teachers, employers, etc. publication follows you.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i try really hard at that! and fail often. but thank you for reading it that way!

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

not unintentionally exploitative. and maybe that’s too sensational a word for it. but when you publish work about your underage kids, you open areas of their life up to public discourse. In perpetuity.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

still, i write so much less than i’d like to and far less than I did when she was younger, because… & this is the difficult part to admit… it’s hard to write about your child in a way that doesn’t use the child and your relationship with them as a rhetorical device. that can be exploitative.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i’m fortunate, i guess, as both a writer and a parent, because my daughter likes being rendered in writing. she likes reading what I write about her and *loves* pointing out “what I got wrong.” 🙄😂

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i still write about parenting and about my daughter (who’s 16), because parenting consumes almost all my time and almost all my thought energy. it’s a challenge to write much about anything else.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it’s a precarious thing to publish writing about parenting (&, thus, your children). especially when they’re teens. they can engage the text and consent to or veto certain content. but they don’t yet understand the longterm implications of publication. and neither does the parent, tbh.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

and again! i’m not necessarily mad at it. i really do have a soft spot for 1984 supergirl with her little skirt and her whole storyline being eclipsed by the mission of saving her love interest. but like…

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Whoopi Goldberg: Just Sayin'

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

all those things work together to “soften” her. and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. she was always a little more emotionally intelligent than reacher. but like… this is always what happens when the fan favorite woman gets a spinoff.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

they gave neagley a beloved childhood friend, a dying single father, a love interest, a little brother, an aversion to touch related to childhood trauma, a mean girl potential friend, people who feel sorry for her for being a loner (something reacher never really has to deal with)…

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

neagley feels a little like the 1984 Helen slater version of supergirl. which i loved. even though it was like… a spinoff from the very best Superman franchise and it suffered both from that and from the need to feminize the character/storyline.

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stacia l. brown @slb79.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

they did just right premiering this the day reacher ended. that’s good programatic planning. we don’t see that much anymore.

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