Good Talk is on the Bookish 2021 Reading Challenge. And (embarrassingly) I totally discounted it as a memoir, because it’s in graphic form. Which was so short sighted. Because the art is really both understated (sketches over photos) and integral to the story she’s telling. And it’s all created by the author—which I’m totally wowed... Continue Reading →
I picked up Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz because it’s on the 2021 Bookish Reading Challenge List. Because folks told me it was intensely good. And I love memoirs. And also… I knew Jaquira Diaz kind of tangentially from my time at the University of South Florida. I don’t know what I expected, really. Maybe... Continue Reading →
The pull to a specific place has occupied my thoughts for the better part of 5 years now. This idea of place as a piece of who we are is what drew me to Atlanta. This city called me until I could no longer ignore it. I had to be here, in a way that... Continue Reading →
I Don’t Want to be Crazy, by Samantha Schultz, made me a little cagey. But only because her truth resonated so profoundly with me. I wanted to run away from it, brush it off, escape from the memories of living with panic disorder. It is hell. Schultz captures the experience of being young, wildly self-absorbed... Continue Reading →
At 16 years old, I found myself behind a cash register, with the beep beep beep of the scanner droning on. It was my very first job--at Target--and I was god-awful at it.
Here's the thing: I cannot be rushed. It's like I have a biological something that creates an inverse relationship between urgency & the speed at which I move.
