Across the Ocean Blue
Pursuing a dream in English-speaking Europe is the vanilla ice cream with sprinkles of international travel for a North American.
A Yellow Poem
But the truth is I’ll follow you like the yellow brick road.
Amateur Abortion Hour
Only a very few of my friends and family members hate women or God, no matter what Rush Limbaugh and The Nation insist.
#212732: The Color of Anti-Scrolling
What you see is what you get—the time is the color; the color is the time.
Our Black Lady of Winding Journeys
As I deconstruct my singular image of God, I am celebrating the multifaceted images of God as a black woman all around me.
My Mother’s Grey Hair
My mother has earned every one of her grey hairs.
Silver Lining
I’d love to claim any of the righteous reasons I might use to defend the bus: environmentalism, patience, solidarity with my surroundings… but the truth is I just like it better.
A Case for the Color Red
How much do we love red? We crush rocks for it. We smash bugs for it.
I’m Glad You Are Here
My grandmother is slowly forgetting. Everything.
The Lord of the Fart Noises
Jesus’s ambiguous (or else horribly inaccurate) ethnicity isn’t even my main problem with most of the ways Jesus is depicted in media. It’s that he’s often ridiculously and unbearably boring.
