Category: About Toi

Most of these posts are purely biographical in nature, but can shed light on what inspires Toi’s writing and tend to be quite entertaining. As of October 2015, these posts have all been combined under the About Me label.

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A Day in My Life: Aug. ’13 : End of Summer

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You may or may not find this surprising, but as a writer I’ve never been much of a journaler (I like making up words). I’ve always kept writing, sketching, and poetry notebooks, but I’ve never really liked writing about myself. This monthly post is my attempt at rectifying that and is an opportunity for me to get a little personal, as I share a single event from my life.

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August 2013- End of Summer My sister and her husband started a tradition a while back that has become a bit of a social event amongst their circle of influence. It’s called the Love Jones Luau. It’s an end of the summer party that happens every year the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Everyone brings something and people just gather around to chat, eat, play games, and more. For some reason, I’ve never been able to make it from the beginning to the end of one of these events, but I always have a good time regardless of how long I’m there. Every day I word to be a more social person, so I’m truly grateful for events like this. Can’t wait for next year!

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If you like it let me know and share it with others. See you next time, Toi Thomas. #thetoiboxofwords

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A Day in My Life: July ’13-Fashion Films and Contemporary Art

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Do you have a MOCA near you?

MOCA- the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art hosts many wonderful gallery shows throughout the year, but the one I went in July was very special. It was part of special Fashion Films series. For the price of 1 admission, you could view all the current galleries on display as well as participate in the fashion films fun, which meant watching an iconic fashion influencing film, having your movie snacks, a participating in the costume/fashion contest.

On July 18th, the featured film was Pretty In Pink and yes, I dressed up, but don’t have a picture to share.  While of course the costumes, snacks, and film were wonderful, the art show pretty cool too.

Brian Dettmer’s Elemental exhibit was magical. What he did with those books, yeah that’s right BOOKs :D, was amazing. I felt like that exhibit had been featured just for me.

Then there was Stacey Steers’s Night Hunter exhibit. I still don’t understand it all, but it was beautiful. I almost missed the movie wanting to stare at it longer. A combination of video animation, sculpture, poetry, painting, and more, I was taken aback.

It was a truly entertaining and enlightening evening.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If you like it let me know and share it with others. See you next time, Toi Thomas. #thetoiboxofwords

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A Day In My Life: June ’13- Birthdays

dayNlifeYou may or may not find this surprising, but as a writer I’ve never been much of a journaler (I like making up words). I’ve always kept writing, sketching, and poetry notebooks, but I’ve never really liked writing about myself. This monthly post is my attempt at rectifying that and is an opportunity for me to get a little personal, as I share a single event from my life.

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June 5, 2013

My husband and I refer to June as Birthday month. For instance, today is my nephew’s and his father’s birthday…but wait there’s more. So far this month, Tim and Ben, two other brother’s-in-law of mine had birthdays and so did my sister Tori, but that’s not where it ends. I still have cousins and friends birthdays to acknowledge along with my dad, Dennis, my husband, Eric, and my father-in-law, Sam. I’m pretty sure there is someone else I’m leaving out, but oh well.

In the end, I guess the existence of birthday month is the reason I made my character, Mira, born in this month.  Anyway, because of all the birthdays and family tradition, all my local family gathered together for our monthly family dinner/birthday celebration. It was a really good time. I do love my family!

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If you like it let me know and share it with others. See you next time, Toi Thomas. #thetoiboxofwords