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I decided to come back to Los Angeles and learn to live alone. I said, I will learn about me… You have three or four choices here that...

Let’s talk town fair. Three giant beans on a placemat win a blue ribbon. A kid with a cow on a frayed rope. Walking it like a dog. Fried...

“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and...

Ya know the more things change The more they stay the same It may be a different age But I'm on the same page Cause one thing that I've...

In my dream I was invited to speak about Superman. I was billed as the premier authority – to be clear about my professional status in my...

“Time will tell… whether folks want to point and stare at the Black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the...

Not overfunctioning means not being a vessel for other people’s anxiety. That was my job in my family-of-origin. To absorb the psychic...

I am standing on the platform of the A train in Manhattan. My mother is with me. It’s winter. I am 8 years old, and I’m wearing the navy...

With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand...

In 2007 I took a poetry writing course at the Omega Institute for Holistic Health in Rhinebeck, New York. My key takeaway from that...

Still in my 20s, my first job right out of graduate school was at a well-respected Fortune 50 corporation. I worked hard my five years...

Gina is 18 years old, 5 foot 3 with cornrows. Seated on the couch next to her father, she’s trying to choose the right time to reveal...

I sashayed into a midtown office seeking employment in 1983 at age 22. “How fast can you type?” came the question from the Manhattan...

“Divide by Four?” Detective Morales looked up from his notes. “Yeah, that’s our inside joke about Mary Lou and her stories,” Reva said....

How I Overfunctioned: I repeatedly invited Betty to various social activities. She would repeatedly decline my invitation then say, “Ask...

An interracial couple’s love is tested when they fall victim to a hate crime. Watch on YouTube ◊ ◊ ◊ About filmmaker Joyce Sherri

During my Internet travels I came across a 2017 blog post by Sweden-based photographer Micael Widell. The title: Who will remember you in...

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. ...

Every December Daddy took the box down from the top closet shelf. I sat on our blue carpeted living room floor to separate the artificial...