My Next Home; My First Home
Lately I have been connecting myself in small ways to the house in Newark that my mom owned with my […]
Essays
A Birthday Celebration for ***Them***? Yes!
“Why she do this?” I listened to those words roll off my husband’s lips. He was relaying a question he
Grief Paints, Too
My mom’s birthday. My dad’s death and me somewhere in between remembering.
A Severed Essay
On Severance, a show about stripping identity and forcing labor. So, I have an essay brewing in me. It’s a
Today’s Truth
Three months ago, I struggled with grief and dismay about a tragic death. Attending a joyous wedding recently brought me a sense of hope and gratitude, but also heightened the awareness of societal injustices and the need to work for a better world for future generations.
What’s 76 minus 35 to an 8th grader whose dad is dying?
It’s my dad’s birthday. I’m thinking about the 35 years since I last saw him.
There’s Always This Evening
A reflection about what it was like to partner with Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures on the Ten Evenings event with poet, essayist, culture critic Ohioan Hanif Abdurraqib.
Dear Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Who’s going to open the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib?
Caste Last Night: A Long Shadow Read
A third standing ovation for Isabel Wilkerson’s talk last night.
No Really, How Does It Feel?
That time in the year 2000 when my sweet Beatle boy type friend went with me to a D’Angelo concert.