Malika Jeffries-EL: Pineapple does not belong on pizza!

I’m into scrapbooking, creating elaborate memory books where you attach photos and related documents. They chronicle your life, your friends, your adventures. When I do it, it’s a retreat: I get a willing participant and we do a whole weekend. Last time we did it, my god-mom came to visit and brought a stack of grandkid photos. We spent two whole days drinking wine in the evenings, tea in the afternoons, working on our books. It’s about beautification of your memories, memorialising the thing you’ve done in the past.

When I was a kid I was inspired by Mae Jemison. I could imagine myself being a doctor. I didn’t want to be an astronaut, but I thought ‘Wow, the sky is the limit.’ I had no desire to go into space, but she was an amazing example.