Can we get real about the holidays right quick?  And I aint talking about who cooking, who making the mac and cheese or if we should fry the bird!!  I’m talking about straight up peace and how that means if your plus one going to work my nerves, you and that heffa need to stay home and eat that dry ass Bob Evans!!  Catch that shade if you must.  I’m protecting my inner peace. Every November, really October we start meticulously planning what we going to eat but we should star

America just doesn’t feel right. Let me be clear: we are not okay. I want to say America is really fucked up right now with all the bullshit going on, but Akira has trusted me to be somewhat responsible, so we’ll stick with the former: we are not okay. I’m not talking about my personal drama, thank God, I’m really straight on that. (Besides the everyday nuances of raising three very different children with a crappy coparent, I’m generally at peace.) No, I’m talking about that

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