“I tried to change.Closed my mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less awake.Fasted for 60 days, wore white, abstained from mirrors, abstained from sex, slowly did not speak another word.” – Warsan Shire I’ve…
Cupellation: Thoughts on Becoming Silver – a series. #1
Cupellation is a refining process in metallurgy, where ores or alloyed metals are treated under very high temperatures and have controlled operations to separate noble metals, like gold and silver, from base metals like lead,…
Talkin’ Teams
There were whole factions of people that I used to hang my life on. I’d speak to them daily. Never a week would go by where I wouldn’t reach out to them. They were active,…
“You’ll Be Back.”
Some advice you never forget. Even moreso if the quality of the person giving is extraordinary. I love my chapter. I’m grateful to have found it and be a part of it since 2001. Early…
Never My Love
Only him. Only his music can do this to me. Stop me dead in my tracks and MAKE me listen. Then dissolve me in to a little puddle of tears. ON SIGHT. Because he reaches…
First Person
She came in to the radio station once to sing this for us live, no accompaniment. We all knew in that instant that she would be a star. The SHEER emotion she exuded. If you’d…
Pete Fiel Mwen
Pronunciation – pay-tay fyelle mouenh Growing up it was a term I heard a LOT from my elders. Usually in relation to something they couldn’t take anymore of. Something so overwhelming that they felt that…