• Black Women Writers at WorkMay 23, 2023
  Black Women Writers at Work (edited by Claudia Tate) expanded my mind, but before I could arrive at expanse, I had to work through the anger. Yes, this book brought up a lot of anger and frustration for me. It wasn’t the content that angered me, it was that I only encountered Black Women Writers at Work somewhere close to midlife. Let me explain. Many years and many dollars of the first half of my life have been spent studying reading, writing, and literature. I went to two “elite” institutions of higher learning and in between I studied to becomeContinue reading “Black Women Writers at Work”
• On Writing: Submission and RejectionMarch 21, 2022
  Over the weekend, I cranked out a short (about 600 words) pieces and submitted it to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. I submitted via email last night and this morning received a quick “no.” It’s been a long, long time since I’ve submitted or pitched anything and so mostly I’m just proud of myself for jumping back into the game of attempting to write for a known audience. To be honest, I’ve never really pitched and submitted that much: a few contests here and there, a couple of on-line venues, and the alt-weekly where I used to work. But I thought aContinue reading “On Writing: Submission and Rejection”
• Knit and a Flick: The PrestigeJanuary 29, 2022
  Spoilers ahead. If you plan on watching The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan, director), do not read this blog post. My advice if you haven’t already watched it (TL;DR): skip it. The theoretically cozy brown chair that I choose on the rare occasion when my husband and I watch a movie on the TV by ourselves sits in a corner of the room we call the porch. Behind the chair is a gap where the two walls should meet, comfortable and confident in their right angled relationship. These two walls so not meet. The porch, not a part of the originalContinue reading “Knit and a Flick: The Prestige”
• The size of thingsNovember 23, 2021
  My kitchen is small. Somehow, we’ve all — all five of us plus the two dogs — managed to be and get fed out of it for the last seven or so years including coming up on two years of almost every meal, every day for all of us. OK, yes, we got take out some of the time. Last night, I made one of my favorite meals to cook: chicken katsu. It involves much handling of raw chicken. It needs to be cut and pounded out before being seasoned a dredged, in turn, through flour, egg, and panko breadContinue reading “The size of things”

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