Book Babe
Allow Me to Reintroduce…
Can you guess the pair? They are ancillary to my current project, but I am so enjoying seeing them come to life right before my eyes. Theirs is definitely a wild ride!
Food For Thought
Who Among Us
Dear Absentee Parents (you know, the ones always there for all the recitals but never the actual child-rearing, discipline, or corrective behavior): The rest of us are tired of your offspring. After having an opportunity to process the absolutely maddening, diabolical and chilling terrorist insurrection on the U.S. Capitol last Read more…
Humanity
I’m…Just…
I’m a believer. Yet,I’m tired. I’m afraid. I’m overwhelmed.I’m demoralized.I’m infuriated. I’m conflicted. Everyday as a mother of black children and the wife of a black man, my prayers of provision, protection and prevention scroll through my head in HD with all the possibilities that I am interceding against. My Read more…
Humanity
Because the National Interest Has Never Been in “All” Lives
This week, some 300 million Americans bore witness to the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of ruthless and cavalier police officers (yes, plural), yet a vast percentage of these people are STILL debating the semantics of “All Lives.” I’d contend that some of these people do in Read more…
Feminism
REMIX: GOT Season 8, Episode 5: (Rock) The Bells
She’s hateful, and so am I. The words had cut her deeper than if Oath Keeper had been thrust straight through her heart by his own hand. They were painful words, antagonizing words. Ones she couldn’t un-hear, no matter how hard she tried. And tried, she had. From the predawn Read more…
Food For Thought
The Thanks You Give
In assessment and overview of the recent macro-climate in the world over the past 365 days (give or take), Oxford Dictionary has recently named “Toxic” as its Word of The Year. Though not surprising, what with the literal and metaphoric rise in poisonous political demagoguery, malevolent attitudes toward migrants and Read more…
Feminism
Look But Don’t Touch
For as long as there’s been engagement between the sexes, society has embraced the manifestation of a relational construct where men have been established as the stronger and more dominant sex to women. This ideology has even paved the way for women to be viewed as fairer (re: weaker), less Read more…