Laughing Through The Pain
My family and I like to re-watch In Living Color sketches, and it’s always the same handful: Jamie Foxx as Prince, Kim Wayans as Crystal Waters, and Tommy Davidson as Michael Jackson. You should just […]
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I’ve Never Loved an Acknowledgements Section So Much
I’m aware of how much I take after my parents and forebears. I have my mother’s hands, my grandmother’s cheeks, and there’s a slight wheeze in my laugh that comes straight from my dad. And […]
Big Wrongs, Big Words
I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut […]