Several years ago a friend pointed out to me that if you are of African American linage, you don’t have a specific country to point to your heritage; you have a continent. A genetic test off the internet might give you a region, but it’s still quite non-specific. Am I European American? Not likely, I’d say I’m Irish, Scottish or part German American. Do you have any old black and white ancestral photos hidden inside a genealogy book? I am quite aware, thanks to my friend who was ‘black’ Continue Reading
A Shared Anxiety
If the last months have taught me anything, it is that I’m human, and I’m afraid. Where is my life journey taking me? I don’t know anymore. I lack total control; it scares me. I think it is like a singular, exposed raw nerve frayed to the point my root ends like beaten down white threads begging to attach to certainty. I float helplessly, taken by the ocean’s tides and currents. Give me some hope? Please. I’m tired. I don’t want to care about anyone or Continue Reading
Making Pizza
Before and after photos... I made the dough from scratch. I let it rise. I have bags of dough in the freezer. I chopped up all the veggies that I bought at a grocery store. I used Newman’s Own marinara sauce. I buy it because of the not for profit and philanthropic philosophy.I’ll quote from a song by The Band, “take what you need and leave the rest.” I never buy more than I need. Thank you to farmers, truck drivers, and those endlessly stocking the grocery store shelves. And I hope we all have Continue Reading
Paper Towels
Paper towels? The grocery store shelves stocked with plentiful paper towels. It was an odd experience since my last sojourn into the grocery store, dutifully wearing my charcoal filtered mask from when the paper product aisle appeared like abandoned metal. The toilet paper section still barren and cold. But brave stocking clerks were getting ahead of customer need. I know it. I feel it. The daily things assumed to be plentiful - no longer, the once ignored clerk, the truck driver, the Continue Reading