No more elders passin’
without my kids askin’ –
“Papa, whose tombstones are those in the yard?”
Family gotta stay close,
all us gotta stay close …
– Arrested Development, Achin’ for Acres
The first time I heard this Arrested Development song, I thought: tombstones in the yard? Really? I don’t think so! But the more I’ve thought about it, the [...]
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Achin’ for Acres
Posted in Jamaica, NaBloPoMo, family, lyrics, music, tagged family, Jah lives in I, Jamaica, lyrics, music, NaBloPoMo on 5 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
Attention white folks …
Posted in Obama, brain freeze, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, race and racism, violence, where we're from, women, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, Obama, race and racism, sexism, violence, where we're from, women on 8 October 2009 | 23 Comments »
… some of your ancestors may have raped some of mine. Oh, I’m sorry. Is this is the first you’re hearing of it?
The New York Times ‘broke’ a story today: they’ve discovered the white ancestor in Michelle Obama’s family tree. SHOCKER!! She’s not as black as we thought, not as black as she wants us [...]
In the Spotlight
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, family, memoir, people I love, tagged choose your own adventure, family, memoir, NaBloPoMo, people I love on 24 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
(In fiction, my brother is always “Tony.” It’s the only way I think of him when I’m writing. So, this is a Tony story.)
Walking from Union Square to Irving Place, I passed the Lee Strasberg school. I’ve walked that block any number of times, but somehow I’d never noticed the school before. I’d forgotten about the Strasberg [...]
Wednesday SOL: Checklist
Posted in NaBloPoMo, books, family, good neighbors, music, slice of life, work, tagged books, family, family fun, good neighbors, music, NaBloPoMo, SOL, the family adventure, work on 5 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, let’s see …
More-work-than-I-thought-it-would-be final report for our ESOL grant? Check.
Solid working draft of the GED proposal? Check.
Headache big enough for five other heads? Check.
Happy-smiley emails back and forth with a woman who’s been on my nerves for the last couple of days? Check.
No time to relax between now and the middle of October? Check.
BUT [...]
Data Checking: My Father
Posted in NaBloPoMo, family, love and other complications, memoir, tagged family, fathers, I remember, love and other complications, memoir, NaBloPoMo on 3 August 2009 | 5 Comments »
Sometimes I think I’m losing the tiny bits of memory that keep my father vivid in my mind, worry that one day I’ll wake up and I won’t have anything left but my few photographs, photos of him so young that he’s a man I don’t remember knowing.
It’s probably unlikely that I will forget him [...]
