prayers

beloved’s trial began last week and i’ve been so busy tending to our son, my classes, and trying to support beloved via phones lines that i forgot to ask for your prayers. we are facing a battle, but from what i hear it’s going well. i will be shipping off to offer my support in [...]

hello, it’s me

i’m back. i’m alive. saw beloved. he is thin, yet hopeful. we are deep deep in love. kissed for 1 hour straight. our son is growing. he is cruising. i am tired. exhausted. teacher training has begun. am i really going to be ms. __________(word?). crazy. life is moving so fast now. must [...]

temper tantrum

lately my nearly 10-month old son has been acting a bit crazy. he’s very smary, knows what he wants, and when he doesn’t get it he pitches a little fit. my mother immediately jumps into “oh no he didn’t” mode, while i have been pretty lax about it because, after all, he’s just a [...]

travel insecurities

it is not enough that we have to stand in long lines, remove our shoes, get fondled by TSA staff, and be damn near strip searched to ride on a plane these days, but NOW we have to drink baby formula (and breast milk?) too?

i am all for safety. God knows i don’t want [...]

nervous energy

today i woke up feeling horrible.

last night my stomach was rumbling and in pain. i didn’t sleep. i chalked it up to nervousness. you see, yesterday, before i left work, i handed in my letter of resignation. it’s time to move on, take a short vacation, go see beloved, and come back to [...]

Solitary Art

“On Friday night, more than 500 people had jammed into a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to assess 25 of Donny Johnson’s small, intense works. There was sangria, as well as big bowls of M&M’s. By evening’s end, six of the postcard paintings had sold, for $500 each.

“They are made with these [...]

the block is hotas i’m writing this is it 3:51pm. i’m sitting here bored at work, avoiding whatever it is i’m supposed to be doing right now. it should not be this hot right now. not at almost 4pm. last night, around 11pm i flipped on the weather channel and it said it was currently [...]

Cos, he said so
“You have to seriously see yourselves not as the old women where the men stood in front and you all stood behind, because the men, most of them are in prison.”

In the 1980s, we watched Bill Cosby glamorize the black family through “The Cosby Show.” For me, I wanted to be a [...]

beathe and stop

last night, as i do most weekends, i settled in to my saturday night ritual of watching one of my netflix selections. this week’s feature was MANITO. Manito is a award-wining, independent drama about a young teen, Manny, with a promising future who ends up blowing his chance at attending college (and his [...]

no rest for the weary

i have been sorta mia lately, coasting day to day, not keeping up with posting. i haven’t been writing at all lately. my letters to beloved have decreased from 7 a week (one each day), to maybe 3. i am not inspired. i am tired, i am bored at work, and [...]