A lifetime of learning
March 8th is International Women’s Day. Below is an excerpt from the book I am working on, a memoir of sorts that will, among other things, celebrate my mother’s incredible strength. She sat in her car, hands gripping the steering wheel. She was so proud of herself for driving over here. She had been thinking […]
Read MoreI was baptized when I was 26. I was looking for something, and I thought I would find it in the Church. I was in a taxi going through Harlem on the way to the airport after spending a few days with a friend, and I remember seeing an abandoned cinema. There was something in […]
Read MoreI think I have spent most of my adult life trying to fight Insecurity. But Insecurity is really just a terrified little girl who fears that people don’t hear her, understand her, like her, accept her, approve of her. How can I fight that? Insecurity is not bad, she’s just afraid. She is afraid that […]
Read MoreMy 9-year old came home yesterday with the Spelling Bee list. The Good Old Fashioned Spelling Bee list. Eleven pages of words – over 400 of them in total. Oh, how I wanted to tell him not to do it, but he seemed so intent on it, I had to keep my mouth shut. While […]
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Ebb and Flow 