Wife/BlindianTeenMom/Lawyer ➡️Recruiter/Nerd Pgh born/Det raised/Chi now @americanwritersmuseum.org & GirlsIncOfChicago boards #BlackSky #Prince #Prince4Ever #BeyHive #StarTrek #BookSky #LawSky #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #JaneAusten #Bridgerton
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Sweet Freedom 🍊 #MichaelMcDonald
✨ “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou A reminder that no matter the struggles, your light is powerful, unstoppable, and uniquely yours. 🌟
Forever Mood #SweetHomeChicago 😍❤️
'New Beginning' (1995) ranks #2 in the final voting for our recent Tracy Chapman readers' poll | Explore the complete results + listen to the album here: album.ink/TChapmanPoll
Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It" from 'Private Dancer' hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart 41 years ago on September 1, 1984 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/tinaturnerPD
'Tracy Chapman' (1988) ranks #1 in the final voting for our recent Tracy Chapman readers' poll | Explore the complete results + listen to the album here: album.ink/TChapmanPoll
🎶”Time on my hands Since you been away boy I ain’t got no plans No no no no…”🎶 #ImGoinDown #MyLife #MaryJBlige
most definitely. it’s a masterpiece. #FionaApple #WhenThePawn
All I Wanna Do 😴 #SherylCrow
Featuring original #Loverboy band member Pete Hornberger: “It’s Never Too Late for Now.” #30Rock
#PurpleRain #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Evergreen FB Throwback #StarTrek #LLAP 🖖🏾
Manic Monday 💘 #TheBangles
That’s all for now! Please come visit & become a member of the @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago (and online!), and please help support this wonderful institution. Our annual OnWord fundraising gala is this coming Monday, Sept 8, 2025, right here in #SweetHomeChicago. 🥰 #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾
One of the many things I love about @americanwritersmuseum.org is the diversity represented — diversity of the kinds of American writing showcased (books, but also newspaper articles, speeches, song lyrics, etc.) as well as the diversity of the backgrounds of the writers themselves 😍 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾
Everywhere you look @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago is colorful, fun, interesting, and aesthetically pleasing to the eye, in addition to being educational. 😍 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾
I particularly love the Wintrust Chicago Gallery dedicated to famous Chicago writers @americanwritersmuseum.org: Some of my favorite are Lorraine Hansberry, Roger Ebert, Ida B. Wells, and Gwendolyn Brooks 😍 #SweetHomeChicago 🥰 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾
There are so many interesting displays and so much great information to learn @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago while still being a fun, warm, collegial, interactive space! #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚
Me today with some of my favorite American writers’ books on display @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Hijuelos, & Lorraine Hansberry. Visiting the American Writers Museum & these works is like visiting old friends. 🙏🏾 #LaborDay #BookSky ❤️📚✍🏾
As a member of the board of trustees of @americanwritersmuseum.org, I am always so proud and happy during each opportunity to visit this special, magical place! One of Chicago’s hidden gems right on Michigan Avenue. C’mon down: It’s fun for the whole family! #LaborDay #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾🎉📚✍🏾 Thread 🧵 👇🏾
Earth Song 🌿 #MichaelJackson
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Now that my husband has gotten up for the day (he’s cooking right now, bless him. i do not cook), I can post September 2025 of the #Prince calendar in our bedroom. Every month, every day, is a good time to look at Prince! #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Well played.
I am still playing the #CowboyCarter album 🤠 all the time! It’s soooo gooooood…!!!!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #Beyonce 💃🏾 #BeyHive 🐝
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Edition Hope
Star Wars Episode II: Massive Attack of the Clones
Be My Baby ❤️ #TheRonettes
The 21st century version of Eyes on The Prize is going to be wild.
#ChakaKhan #ChakaKhan 💃🏾 #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
I Feel For You 🎤 #ChakaKhan
Good morning! 😃☀️🌞
Good morning.
Red Red Wine 🔴 #UB40
Lovergirl 💗 #TeenaMarie
Of course I have a #Prince calendar! But it is in my bedroom right by the bed and my husband is trying to sleep. 😴 I’ll take a picture of it and post it later! ❤️🗓️ #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Happy September! I ❤️ changing my calendars, blessed to see a new day & month! My #StarTrek Strange New Worlds calendar has a scene from one of my fav eps “Ad Aspera per Aspera.” #StarWars shows the GOAT villain Darth Vader! Every @barrybutler9.bsky.social #SweetHomeChicago scene is always pretty 😍🗓️
“Return of the Mack” is an Easter hymn. I thought everybody knew that! Just peep the lyrics: It’s clearly Jesus’s triumphant resurrection comeback song ❤️🎶🙏🏾🎶✊🏾🎶🕺🏾
If you were alive in the mid-70s, these next two guests need no introduction.
Oasis is back, so let's bring this out again.
Me
Of course, I was also blessed to see #CowboyCarterTour this summer! I never miss a #Beyonce concert in part because I deeply regret never having seen #Prince perform live while he was still alive. I’m all about grabbing every experience that is important to me that I can #BeyHive 🐝 #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I am living my very best life in #SweetHomeChicago ❤️🙏🏾
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
It was! I saw “The Purple Madness” band at City Winery on Aug 17, & now #SignOTheTimes #IMAX on Aug 31, both in Chicago. A very purple (birthday) month for me! 🎂🎉 Up next is the #PurpleRain musical in Mpls in Oct, so that’s three great live #Prince experiences in one year. #Blessed #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
I’m happy to see you and your family enjoyed watching The Purple One on the big screen! It was a beautiful time.
My cousins and I enjoyed it! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 #SignOTheTimes #IMAX #SweetHomeChicago #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
I did dress casual for #SignOtheTimes #IMAX today. I bought a purple dress to wear to the #PurpleRain musical in Mpls (which I am going to go see in Oct), but today was a “casual #Prince event,” vs. a formal one, as the #PurpleRainMusical will be, in my mind #PurpleRainTheMusical #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Nothing beats seeing #Prince perform on the big screen with a live audience of fellow adoring Purple Fam: #SignOTheTimes #IMAX was cool; Seeing #PurpleRain at Celebration in Minneapolis for the 40th anniversary in June 2024 was the best. But hanging with my cousins today was great! #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Peach bracelets did not arrive in time, but my cousins and I still had a great time at #SignOTheTimes #IMAX in Chicago today! #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
Had a great time watching #SignOTheTimes #IMAX with my cousins this afternoon in Chicago! #Prince #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️
#Beyonce 💃🏾 #CowboyCarter 🤠 #BeyHive 🐝
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Dinner meal planning ideas for my fellow salmon lovers 😋🍣 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/d...
Didn't It Rain ☔ #MahaliaJackson
“I know my worth”
Saturday afternoon on Lake Michigan at the Race World Offshore - Chicago National Grand Prix. The helicopters also made it a race for these speed boats.
One Last Blast of Summer. Tonight in Chicago Harbor for the last firework show of the season.
Keep applying pressure, Mr. Beckford.
“Fine my whole life” suits Tyson Beckford.
top tier skeet
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
‘Prince - King of B-sides’ by Matt Osgood in digital and paperback formats: Amazon US: a.co/d/hhwaLoS Amazon UK: amzn.eu/d/0lCJyXO #prince #SignOfTheTimes
I Wish U Heaven (alt. vers.) #prince #princerogersnelson #prn #iwishuheaven #musicvideo #alternative #instr #instrumental #heaven #spirituality #spiritual #love #god #princeislove #loveisprince #angel #blueangel #purple #purpleangel #blue
Have some Joy. From Prince to you #music #musicsky #nowlistening #nowstreaming #nowplaying #rockmusic #ZuzusPetals #Prince open.spotify.com/track/6lUsKc...
Author James Campion breaks down #Prince 's unforgettable performance at the 2004 #RockandRollHallofFame ceremonies. youtu.be/ho6imYsTWn0?...
1984 - Prince 'Purple Rain' the movie-starring Prince opened at cinemas across the UK with special late night previews. The film grossed more than US $80 million at the box office and became a cult classic. #prince4ever
#Prince #Prince4Ever #IMissUPrince
Only The Lonely ⏺️ #DianaKrall
Remmick strips autonomy and individual thinking, and he forces you to do HIS song and dance. These people were forced to be come the monstrosities that only survive in shadow. Stack couldn’t even see his brother in his own reflection after that night because vampires have no reflection in mirrors.
Folks, see this re-release if you can, even if you've seen it hundreds of time on TV, streaming, or disc. This one NEEDS to be experienced on a big screen, and the 4K remaster looks stunning!
I wrote this one. What an album.
Whilst shooting ‘Green Mansions’ in 1958 AUDREY HEPBURN worked with a Fawn called Pippin. In order to cement their bond Audrey took ‘Ip’ - as she nicknamed her - home after shooting & bond they surely did.
Oh-oh, yes, I'm ___________________ (Ooh, ooh) Pretending that I'm doing well (Ooh, ooh) My need is such, I pretend too much I'm lonely, but no one can tell Oh, yes, I'm ___________________ (Ooh, ooh) Adrift in a world of my own (Ooh, ooh) I've played the game, but to my real shame #NTT
The Great Pretender
Whenever I block someone on social media.
Whenever I block someone on social media.
Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: SCHOOL DAYS & EDUCATION!
With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because he feels no pain - As You Like It (III, 2) #ShakespeareSunday
How could communities, Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? - Troilus and Cressida (I, 3) #ShakespeareSunday
Killing Me Softly With His Song ♀ #RobertaFlack
Peel Me A Grape 🍌 #DianaKrall
Put Your Records On ❄️ #CorinneBaileyRae
