Growing up, I was one of those girls who hated gym class. One of those girls who the boys never wanted on their team during games because my fellow gym-haters and I would stand around gossiping, determined not to break a sweat in 90-plus degree Florida heat, reciting the words to “The Real Roxanne” […]
Good news…I got into VONA!
Bad news…I was accepted for a different week and a different class than I requested. So I’m passing. Maybe next year…
Good news…We got all the planting done!
Bad news…The same little girls who have asked me daily for the past month, “Are we gardening TODAY???” pretty much bailed after an […]
The piece of writing that I’m most proud of has made its way into the world. It’s an article for Wondertime about what it meant to me to have my grandmother raise me (along with my mother). I will provide the link to the online version below, but promise me you’ll pick up the print […]
My latest post is up over at AntiRacistParent. My kids always give me wonderful writing fodder. They earn their keep.
My contribution to the Women’s History Month Blog Carnival hosted by Tami and Heart is up. Take a read.
My latest column is up over at AntiRacistParent. It’s a review of Sesame Street: Old School, Volumes 1 and 2. Enjoy!
Finally–after a long wait–my copy of PoemMemoirStory (PMS) #8, a literary journal out of the University of Alabama, arrived in the mail today! #8 is a special black women writers’ issue, guest edited by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, AND I’M IN IT! More accurately, my short story “Bomani Jones” is in it.
Happiness!
This is my […]
My review of Jump at the Sun,and an interview with author Kim McLarin.
Please check out my interview with writer Kim McLarin over at LiteraryMama. In it, she discusses the themes in her most recent novel, Jump at the Sun (about a successful black woman who contemplates abandoning her children) as well as why she writes, how being a black, female writer informs how she sees the […]
Guess who’s invited to participate in a panel discussion about “The State of Black America” at Duquesne University.
Me!
“Please join the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Black Student Union on February 19, 2008 in the Duquesne Room at 7:00PM as a panel of African American leaders from the City of Pittsburgh share their diverse […]
