If my mouth wasn’t taped up for sleep, I would have screamed. I was in bed, enjoying the morning breeze before the sun was fully up, bright and high, reading Rioghnach Robinson’s novel Bad Words. ...
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Hurricane Lamps & Anthurium Thrones
While walking through the To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg’s Library exhibit, a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture mentioned a phrase that really...
Bubbly Girls
I went home for my mother’s birthday two weeks ago. (Y’ALL! VIRGO SEASON WORE ME OUT!) She likes to spend the day at the Spa at the Hotel Hershey and has for the last 15 years or so. In between...
Keeping Score
On Wednesday, I took the train to Harrisburg for a quick trip. I got on the train at 6:07am, off at 9:15am, and then back on at 3:03pm, and was supposed to be off at 6:30pm (that’s a different, more...
Saw Things I Imagined
Imagine me, sitting in a dark theater, watching the opening scene of the Devil Wears Prada 2, when writer Andrea Sachs admits to a roomful of her industry peers that she and a table of her...
Setting the Stage
Do you ever get goosebumps when you encounter someone who is fully operating in their gift? I feel that way every single time I smell a Marissa Zappas perfume. There is a spirituality to them that’s...
The Books Behind Fluff
When I first got the idea for this newsletter, I had no idea that books would play such a major part in its development. I’m not sure why though, because, for as long as I’ve known me, I’ve always...