Archives for March 2013
Zappa
While I was getting my hair cut I overheard a conversation between the barber and a patron. “They were acting just like children!” “That’s an insult to children” the barber said. An insult to children. That’s not something you hear everyday. ***
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In A Jam(mies)
I walked away from Penelope’s room. I heard a faint cry as I stood in the kitchen. When I checked the video monitor I saw her arms in the air, stuck in her pajama top. She attempted to take it off and got the arms turned around somehow. She was straighjacketed and unable to move. […]
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Stop International Adoption
What kind of reaction do you have when you read the title? Excited? Defensive? Offended? My reaction was “baffled”. During Q&A after an Atlanta screening of “Somewhere Between“, director Linda Goldstein Knowlton said the only point she had to stop filming was during or after Hilbrand Westra’s discussion on ending international adoption. (If you’ve seen the […]
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The Swirly Family by Jasmin Morrell
My skin is peanut butter brown, and the natural texture of my dark hair can only be described as kinky. I’m married to a man who’s fair skinned and a bit freckled, with the kind of glossy, brown, loose curls any woman would die for. You might call me Black and him White. Or, if […]
