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Left Behind

In two days it will have been one month since my family moved six and a half hours and 438 miles south of the home we’d lived in for the…

Sep 14, 2021

The Stories We Are

I remember when I was in grade school there was an annual competition called, “The Real Woman Essay Contest.” It was a part of Women’s…

Sep 1, 2021

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Finding Home

I don’t have a hometown. I claim New York because of all of the adolescent memories that are nestled there, but the truth is I’ve never…

Aug 24, 2021

A Bushel and a Peck

My grandmother has been gone a year now.

Jul 13, 2021

Pride & Joy

My first love’s name was Jennifer. Some of her friends called her “Jen.” The only people I ever heard call her “Jenny” were her mother and…

Jun 4, 2021

Something to Watch: “The Pieces I Am”

I have cried three times when a celebrity passed away. Once in the 90s, when Tupac Shakur was killed. Again in 2016, with the passing of…

May 27, 2021

The Privilege of Childhood

Miles sits on the floor in his room. Lego projects in various states of completion litter the floor around him. To his left is a replica of…

May 21, 2021

Why I Resigned From the Swarthmorean

I am the first Black woman editor of The Swarthmorean. That is not lost on me. Following the announcement in the paper that I was the new…

May 12, 2021

Something to Read: “A Good Cry”

At times like these

May 10, 2021

With Liberty and Justice for All

Equity has become a buzzword across the country in our communities, businesses and schools. Equity, along with diversity, now feels trendy…

May 10, 2021

Something to Read: “The Beauty in Breaking”

May 10, 2021

Something to Watch: Antebellum

“Antebellum” was originally supposed to hit theaters on April 24, 2020, but the pandemic had other ideas. After initially pushing the…

May 10, 2021

A Soft Place to Land

be easy.

May 10, 2021

Call it What it is

On Tuesday, March 16, a white man walked into three different Atlanta-area spas and killed eight people. Six of them were Asian women. Once…

May 10, 2021

The Pain We Carry

I was at the park with my sons and my husband yesterday and I banged up my hip while running up the slide with my 5 year old. I knew the…

Jan 7, 2019

What Is Real?

My younger daughter lost a tooth. It wasn’t the first, but the rate at which she has lost her teeth makes each time it happens a bit of an…

Dec 4, 2018

Making

If you walked into my house you might not think that a minimalist lives here. You might look at my shelves full of books or my son’s truck…

Nov 20, 2018

Can I Live?

I usually go grocery shopping on Saturdays. I shop at 2 stores, maximum. Either, Martindales (our local natural food store where we buy…

Nov 14, 2018

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

The first time he did it, I froze. I just looked at him, and kept looking at him, long after he’d wriggled out of my arms, and moved on to…

Nov 13, 2018

loss + gratitude

In 2012, I was the mother of two kind, intelligent, compassionate, beautiful daughters. They were four and six years old at the time, and…

Nov 6, 2018