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07/30/2025

I want dirty feet. I want summers of cousins and aunts. I want dodge ball and Miss Mary Mack. I want jacks and marbles. I want fishing and eating baloney sandwiches on white bread. A sweet melancholia visits every summer and punctuates the losses that arrive throughout the year, year after year. We are all in mourning for those moments when freedom and joy didn’t have to be negotiated and when we were ignorant of our own happiness....

I want dirty feet. I want summers of cousins and aunts. I want dodge ball and Miss Mary Mack. I want jacks and marbles. I want fishing and eating baloney sandwiches on white bread. A sweet melancho…

07/22/2025

10/13/2024

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09/19/2024

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The context is a little hazy, but I was about 11 or 12 when for some reason I told my schoolmates about my father being a photographer. It might have been one of those “this is what my daddy does” …

09/19/2024

The context is a little hazy, but I was about 11 or 12 when for some reason I told my schoolmates about my father being a photographer. It might have been one of those “this is what my daddy does” moments. Quite casually, I said that my father worked for Jet magazine. “You lyin’,” was the response. Even after viewing his byline underneath articles and photographs in the magazine, often the “Beauty of the Week,” I was told that I had merely chosen to fib about that person because we had the same last nam…...

The context is a little hazy, but I was about 11 or 12 when for some reason I told my schoolmates about my father being a photographer. It might have been one of those “this is what my daddy does” …

08/30/2024

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on this date in 1797.

08/29/2024

Just so you know, it's the fault of the French.

"Left and right originally referred to seating positions in the 1789 French National Assembly, the parliament France formed after the French Revolution.

Relative to the viewpoint of the speaker (chair) of this assembly, to the right were seated nobility and more high-ranking religious leaders. To the left were seated commoners and less powerful clergy. The right-hand side (called le côté droit in French) became associated with more reactionary views (more pro-aristocracy) and the left-hand side (le côté gauche) with more radical views (more pro-middle class).

Left and right, as political adjectives, are recorded in English in the 1790s. " -- dictionary.com

08/22/2024

Empathy emancipates. -- Amanda Gorman

08/17/2024

I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.

Chimamanda Adichie

08/14/2024

I am cobbling myself back together from the pieces lying about the room. Every evening they fall apart again. -- Brad Watson