For the second day in a row, no prompt from bloganuary. Where are these prompts going? She’s been checking her spam folder. Nada. When she presses on…… Read more “My Heart, p. 76”
Tag: memoir
Quote of the Day: A Promised Land
44 remembers a conversation with his mother! “You know, Barry, she said (that’s the nickname she and my grandparents used for me when I was growing up,…… Read more “Quote of the Day: A Promised Land”
Voyage: Slaver Ship, 1841
When in sight of the Bahamas Banks, at a place called Old Point Compass, or the Hole in the Wall, we were becalmed three days. There was…… Read more “Voyage: Slaver Ship, 1841”
New Orleans, 1814
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, p. 37: Edward Ball’s forebear, Yves Le Corgne, washes up in “New Orleans, a town ninety years…… Read more “New Orleans, 1814”
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, by Edward Ball
pp. 12 – 13 Our Klansman’s story is not just a family story, it belongs to many. I have no first-person testimony for this tale — no…… Read more “Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, by Edward Ball”
Doreen G. Fernandez: Fruits of Memory
from Doreen’s Introduction to Fruits of the Philippines (Bookmark, Inc.: Manila, 1997): I remember gathering lemons in our farm: they were large and lumpy and not like…… Read more “Doreen G. Fernandez: Fruits of Memory”
Patient # 4, LET ME NOT BE MAD
For the past two days self has been reading A. K. Benjamin’s Let Me Not Be Mad. She must be in a zone: it’s her third memoir…… Read more “Patient # 4, LET ME NOT BE MAD”
Walking Around in a Heat Wave
Bookstores are fine places.
Back to Work
Below, page 1 of a very, very old work-in-progress. Self was clearing her closets when she stumbled across the hard copy yesterday. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DEAR DEPARTED…… Read more “Back to Work”
RISING, DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE, p. 45
Lately my feeling is that I need time to just be here before I can decide whether to stay or not. My guess is that I will…… Read more “RISING, DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE, p. 45”
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