• What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? The decision to sign the DNR paper for my mother. My mother was very ill towards the end of her life, and her doctors kept trying to get me to sign the paper but I couldn’t do it because she was my mother. The first…


  • I Wonder

    As the season changes from fall to winter, I’m sitting here thinking as usual and listening to music. As the song ‘That Girl’ by Stevie Wonder is playing, and I’m thinking about my Aunt Mary who died the same year when this song was released. And my other matriarchs. I wonder if they are proud…


  • The Art of Self Absorption

    What principles define how you live? The principles that define how I live my life are minding my own business, treating others with respect and dignity, and being self absorbed. Now some people think that being self absorbed is a bad thing but it’s really not. When you are self absorbed in a healthy manner,…


  • Life

    Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. I’ve always felt out of place in this weird world. From childhood until now. I’ve been loved and is still loved but still feel alone. It’s a weird feeling that’s hard to explain.


  • Dream Jobs

    List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter. Oh what would I be if I didn’t need money?


  • Grief, Energy, and Coping

    Facebook memories can be a very painful experience. A picture of my brother Randy that I had posted two years ago popped up while I was sitting down thinking about how I have outlived my entire childhood family. Literally everyone with whom I had formed my earliest memories with has crossed over and it’s a…


  • What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? The aspects of my cultural heritage that I’m most proud of are oral history and the ability to turn a shack into a home. I come from a long line of female griots who told the history of our family and…


  • The Harvest Season

    When the picture on the right was taken back in September of 2020, I was in the throes of grief. In the trenches. Wallowing in pain. My last remaining sibling had died in February and the country shut down a month later due to the pandemic. I was working from home, and stuck in the…


  • Empty and Meaningless

    What would your life be like without music? My life would be a dull place without music. I’ve been in a funk since the death of R&B music legend, Frankie Beverly was announced last week because his music was literally the soundtrack of my life and I can’t believe he’s really gone. With his passing,…


  • Middle Aged Shit

    What are you doing this evening? What am I doing this evening? Nothing but watching the presidential debate and existing.