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Dear Readers, I’ve been blogging at Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS since 2009. It’s been a great run, but as…
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Author’s Note: If you’re a steady reader of this blog, you know I worry about writing in obscurity forever. It’s…
I sent this letter via email to senior high school students I teach in Camden, NJ, earlier this month. If…
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My thesis is submitted(!) and now … there’s summer clothing I can’t fit into. Most weeks, I spend more hours…
It’s Holy Week, and I’ve been spending it the way I normally do: working, grocery shopping, exercising, traveling among all…
I spent this past Thursday through Saturday at AWP17, the 50th annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing…
I know that the Zumba instructor at the main YMCA I go to is studying to be a physical therapist,…
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I started unpacking at 11:00 pm, almost as soon as I walked through the door. And as the contents of…
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Since I’ve been staying in my home town with my mom for the holidays, I’ve had exchanged pleasantries and had…
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