Rememberies

he wore roach-stompin' cowboy boots black and patched in skins, out of fashion more than in, neither his concern, but sometimes… mine. skin sandpaper in shadows after five, and grizzly-sized hugs still felt in empty places.  he loved mirrors, and...

Anniversaries, Stripes & Aunt Jemima

I was scared to death of him.  He was the Golden Child, the proverbial Boy Scout, the Good Christian Boy…and it was our first date.     I, on the other hand, having enjoyed my freshman year of college, was settling a bit in my sophomore....
The First Last

The First Last

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved I almost missed it because I was so self-absorbed.   The first...

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