When the Doing Follows the Being

I’ve been in the midst of a very slow-rolling project of scanning and organizing all of my photographs for some time now. During a recent dive into a folder, I found a scan from just last year. It was a simple collage I made in January 2020 to illustrate one of my...

The Awful/Good, Awfully Good Practice

People occasionally compliment me for being patient. It makes me giggle. When I tell Theresa or my mom about those compliments, they giggle, too. Patience is most certainly not one of my superpowers. I practice it, though. I practice noticing when my patience is...

An Ordinary No?

  Two words keep repeating in my mind since I heard them in a podcast a number of weeks ago: Ordinary no. The podcast is The Secret Live of Black Women. The interview was with writer/journalist, Bim Adewunmi. Bim was describing an application she both wanted to...

Resolve to Re-Start

Babe Ruth had a batting average of .342. This is a very good batting average, well above average in baseball. This very good batting average is essentially saying that Babe Ruth hit (without fouling) roughly one third of the balls pitched to him. One third. 1/3. Which...

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