“Stumbled ’round the block a thousand times. You missed every call that I had tried. So now I’m giving up. A heartbreak in mid-December. You don’t give a fuck.” ~Neck Deep (“December”) December inevitably comes like a thief in the night, at least in my world, because it follows hard on the heels of a … Continue reading this december
I’ve been working really hard not to react–to people, to comments, to situations that make me feel like I’m swimming upstream when I do react. I know what they look like, as I always have. There are those who like to challenge, to confront, to respond to everything with angst, or a holier-than-thou attitude, who … Continue reading reactionary?
I don’t have COVID-19. There. I said it, and I hope it remains true, no matter how long this heinous virus goes around. Yes, I’ve heard of herd immunity, but I worry that we will never reach it, no matter how many millions get it, no matter how many hundreds of thousands succumb to it. … Continue reading fear
Or maybe it’s more like “We’re here. We have value. Don’t tread on us.” So many people like to pat themselves on the back and say, “Martin Luther King fought hard and accomplished so much, so now black people are equal.” If white people are afraid the police are going to catch them it’s because … Continue reading Being Black in America
“You need to sit still,” Mrs. Nottingham admonished, hair brush in hand. Penelope was the absolute worst when it came to patience. Every day she had to sit through hair, and makeup, and dress fittings, an endless litany of responsibilities out of the spotlight that hopefully would make her more palatable to the public when … Continue reading Nottingham
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” ~T.S. Eliot I used to believe in the Apocalypse. I thought it was some fantasmic, spectacularly obscene alternate reality that would somehow intersperse with our own sometime in the distant future, in some Buck Rogers timeline that wouldn’t see me in … Continue reading That Revelations Feeling
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