Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m pushing 50 these days so this particular branch of toxic masculinity doesn’t reach for me the way it did when I was young. Back then, it felt entitled to lean out car windows and …
Reading Time: 4 minutes The poetry of Original Captain Kirk actually in space notwithstanding, here’s what I don’t understand: All the silly little greed-monsters are doing “Space-Race II” like anyone but them really gives a damn and like a …
Reading Time: 4 minutes And, I know. Hate is a strong word. But I’m 99.9999% certain I hate it. I showed the featured photo above to a friend of mine the other day and her exact words were, “Well, …
Reading Time: 4 minutes So. White Supremacists once again threaten all manner of kindness and decency in ways that follow the road maps left by their consummately colonial, entitled, dumbf—k evil roots and the only ray of flip-the-script light …
Reading Time: 5 minutes (continued from On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 2) I cannot tell you how many amazing, articulate, expressive people I know who are still recovering from chronic self-doubt born of their inability communicate …
Reading Time: 5 minutes (continued from On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 1) How many times have I spent literally hours, days, months, years of my life trying to find a way to express myself clearly to someone …
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a toddler and young child, according to my mother and sister, I used to say “ayana” when I wanted someone to lie down with me. No one has any idea where I got the …
Reading Time: 5 minutes So, lately, every time I tuck into one of my fiction projects, I have an overwhelming urge to make all the characters go into self-isolation due to a global pandemic. From their different worlds and …
Reading Time: 9 minutes I woke this morning having barely slept because I have a cold. Again. I never get sniffly colds. My body and I have a deal. It flattens me like carefully steam-rolled asphalt once every 3-5 …
Reading Time: 8 minutes So, I’m starting to think that a lot of the most common forms and expressions of “guilt” are, in Western, Eurocentric culture, socially validated placeholders for our more truthful emotions. Is it, perhaps, a bold …