My greatest aspiration in life is to be a prolific writer. My 6th-grade English teacher, Ms. Eick, read my first poem and looked at me over her glasses. She told me I had a gift and that she saw my potential, but I must constantly work on my skill. Capitalizing on the potential Ms. Eick […]
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30 Day Writing Challenge Day Eight: A Book You Love & One You Didn’t Confession time: in my early 20s I had a sordid addiction to hood novels, more elegantly known as urban fiction. Though I grew up reading various giants of the African-American literary canon, the grittiness in the stories of the inner-city intrigued […]
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In today’s blog I discuss how a novel on the lives of girls in rural parts of the developing world made me reflect on family tales from the paternal side of my child’s family & the need to recognize one’s privileges.
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