Tag Archives: conversation
How Clean Are Your Hands?
My girlfriend and I just moved in together. (I relocated to her town.) We’re very happy, but I have a problem: The walls in our apartment are thin. And I often hear her use the bathroom without washing her hands … Continue reading
Quotes or Anything Funny
But lately I’ve just been working on my book and jotting down quotes or anything funny that I think of. The other day I wrote “I am at an age where remembering something right away is as good as an … Continue reading
The Black woman
Being a Black woman has taught me fortitude, focus, and courage, and shown me the love of sisterhood and connection. Being a disabled, Black woman has taught me patience and perseverance. While in many ways, it has forced me to … Continue reading
Ask Me
The hardest part, she says, isn’t even the superficial circumstances of a character. It’s discovering what they strive for and what holds them back. She quotes a famous passage from Merton’s novel My Argument With the Gestapo: “If you want to identify … Continue reading
Do you remember…Large front porches
Perhaps you were lucky enough to grow up in a house with a big front porch and a smaller back one. One reason that builders and architects designed every house that way 100 years ago was that it helped to … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 