For as long as I can remember, my great-grandmother never let a night go by without turning on the electric candlesticks perfectly…
For as long as I can remember, my great-grandmother never let a night go by without turning on the electric candlesticks perfectly…
Clutching three rotten apples in a single hand, she stood at the screen door and waited for the shifting dark clouds to…
Visiting my grandfather in North Carolina was nothing short of a civic wonderland. Before my feet had even crossed the flaxen welcome…
It wasn’t easy growing up so far away from close family. All of my mother’s siblings and her parents lived below the…
They say there are five stages of grief and that there is no order in how a person navigates a certain loss.…
Pain \peyn\ n. 3a. Physical or bodily suffering; a continuous, strongly unpleasant or agonizing sensation in the body, such as…
It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to prove, or a vendetta. I walk toward…
Therapy is the supportive process of accompanying one’s journey of transcendence from darkness to light to darkness again, ultimately landing somewhere in…
I saw The Notebook musical on Broadway during a Full Moon in Scorpio. Yes, I am an astrology nerd and this Full…
Thousand Oaks, California I flew from coast to coast when I was nine years old. My father found work in August and…
Grandmothers Some little girls, with plaits and blemishes, cook rice and jerk chicken as the heat crawls down their spine in the…
I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of peace, love, Vietnam War protests and what…
I took the longest strides of my life during my first winter in America. Race-walking in between classes as my nostrils felt…
The Traveling Refugee. She watched her ancestors burn and hang. In the land of the free. In the land of the brave.…
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…