HOW WE ARE.

I was never my plan to become that guy you know who got himself stuck in Mexico during a global pandemic. I had gone to the Riviera Maya...

How I am I am trying not to self-combust. I am trying to be a good wife while my husband is living and working 3 1/2 hours away from me....

How am I doing? How are YOU doing? ARE we doing? Contentious questions for a contentious time. -- I am the artsy, pro-aesthetic type of...

June 3, 2020 for breakfast I cooked & ate some Mother / mixed her in with mashed bananas & eggs / with flour / vanilla & spice / mixed...

The End of May 2020 The magnolia blooms light bulbs and white women clench their jaws and call the police in all American cities. We are...

Story Time: 8 years ago today I found out I was dying. A misdiagnosis had caused an impacted ventral hernia to go unnoticed. The pain and...

The Fear of Wind Instruments When this is all over, Will we stare at each other’s mouths With suspicion, rapt In mandibular terror? If,...

Today, I know ends with day. Been up since 3:45am. My four-month-old daughter stirs, I feed her six-ounces of a soy-based formula from a...

These days, I find myself writing the imaginary more than ever. The quarantine has turned my attention especially toward loss, especially...

How We Are: Donating Platelets During Lockdown Memorial Day, I go to the American Red Cross to donate platelets the fourth time in the...

"Don't carry anything you bought from the store in your purse." I cannot describe what that quote did to me as I stood in Shima's...

Mostly I am disoriented, navigating a mix of fury, gratitude and guilt. I am currently in New Zealand, so I’m in what is very likely the...

March 8th, my son’s 44th birthday, was the last social event I attended in the flesh. My girlfriend’s daughter turned 25 years old that...

The Oxford Swim Club is less the country club that the name evokes, and more a simple, rectangular, neighborhood pool with a six-foot...

First things first, I must acknowledge this moment. I support all protests, and felt frustrated that I couldn’t participate because of...

I will be withdrawing my application to the 27 Club in 2 days. Another milestone. All the birthdays did I not believe in after 18,...

Mostly confined to home environs for more than nine weeks. It’s not as bad as it might be because I enjoy rest, solitude, and streaming...

If I had gone to Spelman like my mother wanted, I would’ve pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha like my drill captain from youth. I would’ve gone up...

For this piece, I thought a long time about how to reflect upon the current climate. But I don’t think another think piece about the...

In late February, I got up to use the bathroom. I woke up on the floor. The story is as simple as that: I got up, I fell down, I hit my...