A little riddle for my upcoming 40th Birthday I found what I truly wanted, it is one of a kind. But a little similar to something I already really like. I had to drive a ways and it cost $300 and might cost me more. It is not everyone’s cup of tea but it goes…
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because sometimes labels just box us in
Under-resourced identities
My one rule is do NOT be boring. I am writing this as a guide because I know that many of you have not had the exposure or resources you might need to fully understand this rule. You are very under-resourced, unprivileged and deprived of what it takes to achieve this one goal. For example…
Think of memoir’s first chapter as a suitcase
Originally posted on Monica Lee:
One way to judge a good memoir is by its first chapter. At a memoir writing workshop I attended before writing “The Percussionist’s Wife,” author Paulette Bates Alden (“Crossing the Moon”) maintained the first chapter was a reflection of all that was to follow. “The first chapter is like a…
Occupy Wall street aka when the middle class was snapped
The snap of Thanos has become a pop culture analogy for sudden and drastic change. Occupy Wall street was a moment when those who held supposed middle-class positions – lawyers, professors, middle-managers – discovered their exploitation. A fizzure occurred within their self-image that had been built on a “white supremacist capitalist patriarchal values” as bell hooks so clearly…
On Writing: An Abecedarian
A dedication to letters, words, sounds, silence and reading; interwoven with ancient history and what we still have to learn from it. Source: On Writing: An Abecedarian
a sensual legacy of longing
My fetal memories, my introduction to language, my first physical relationship to the Earth’s magnetic pull, the air I first screamed to inhale, the food I tasted through my mother’s lactation, the sounds, scents, climate that first touched me was across an ocean from where I am now. It may not mean much, except that…
incomplete and insufficient
This strange time is making us consider mortality, yes in some very real ways but also to face that shadow, the strangeness, the unknown, to confront our feelings about death and dying. At what age were you introduced to the concept of dying? Did it come from the death of a pet, the death of…
Who Will Be the Gun Takers?
via Who Will Be the Gun Takers?
Bookstores have a self-help aisle, where is the help others aisle?
via Bookstores have a self-help aisle, where is the help others aisle?
the revoke award show
Originally posted on collective failure:
When a person wins an award it is all celebration, publicity, and inscriptions in the record-books. Now we face the flood of “revelations” that many recipients of such awards do not deserve the honor. So a small article is typed out to state that the award, distinction, title or honor has…
eulogy for “losing your virginity”
via eulogy for “losing your virginity”
Bump in the Road by Amelie Rose Baker
via Bump in the Road by Amelie Rose Baker