It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to
Therapy is the supportive process of accompanying one’s journey of transcendence from darkness to light
I saw The Notebook musical on Broadway during a Full Moon in Scorpio. Yes, I
Thousand Oaks, California I flew from coast to coast when I was nine years old.
Grandmothers Some little girls, with plaits and blemishes, cook rice and jerk chicken as the
I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of
I took the longest strides of my life during my first winter in America. Race-walking
The Traveling Refugee. She watched her ancestors burn and hang. In the land of the
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what
I can’t remember ever not wanting to be a mother. The lullaby to first tuck
“Wòch nan dlo pa konnen doulè wòch nan solèy.” The rock in the water cannot
My mother was born with one kidney when most of us are born with two.
Grandma. I always just referred to her as that without any qualifiers. I said Grandma
2011. The first boy I ever loved had dimples in both cheeks, a passion for
Fresh Fear In Chicago, death smells like fresh grass and barbecue. When that last school
