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Mundane reflections on beauty, truth, and justice. Podcast featuring Opening Paragraph, reading the beginning of good books.
2024-02-03 16:24
I have painted every wall in my house at least once. I have repainted most of them since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. It began with the kitchen, which got a necessary remodeling in 20… Read More
2024-01-31 20:12
Civil rights were first constitutionalized in the 13th Amendment. However, the fact of civil rights as a false category is immediately reveal… Read More
2023-09-10 11:16
In the 1950s when my house was built, the people designing the living spaces likely never washed clothes. Sure, they probably used the utility sink, in the room where they also placed the wa… Read More
2023-09-06 00:13
My laundry room is stuck in the 1950s. It’s clear that the architects who designed my house had not imagined that a laundry room would ever be anything but utilitarian. It’s unin… Read More
2023-02-10 18:14
At the red light, a young man, maybe 30, probably younger, held a cardboard sign with words I didn’t bother to read. Living on the streets added an aged veneer. Yet, his complexion was… Read More
2022-12-27 09:16
I binge watched Christmas movies from Thanksgiving to Christmas. I could have watched anything–action, adventure, comedy. I chose romantic Christmas movies. I wasn’t in the holid… Read More
2022-10-26 09:31
Excited to see my second play titled, Period., published in Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor. Let me know what you think!
NEFERTITI:
. . . I saw that outfit in a Sp… Read More
2022-09-09 14:35
The drive to move on is forgetful. The failure to remember holds within it the comfort and ease of not having to recall often painful incidents, as well as the threat of repeating cyclical p… Read More
2022-09-05 23:55
On August 9, 2022, Serena Williams announced her plan to retire in Vogue. I have followed her and her sister’s storied career since they were kids. Like the way I felt about Mike Tyson… Read More
2021-09-09 16:31
One Sunday morning many years ago I set out with my camera in hand to photograph a blues landscape. I had glimpsed it from the interstate spur that stands above the east end of Newport… Read More
2021-01-10 16:07
One of the many reasons we must be deeply concerned about the attack on the Capitol is that it is an attack on democracy. Democracy gives a voice to the people. Some of the people, like Af… Read More
2020-12-22 10:13
It’s the shortest day of the year. And what a year it has been. 2020.
In my mind I am drawing on the power of Saturn being in Jupiter to write some brilliant piece of literature… Read More
2020-08-31 23:11
My kid starts seventh grade today. I did not go back to school shopping for the first time in 21 years. There’s no squeaky new tennis shoes. No stiff new jeans. No new t-shirts or… Read More
2020-08-27 17:42
Photo by Mark Cruzat from PexelsPublishing has changed considerably since Ralph Ellison lounged around the offices of Random House in the 1950s. Relationships with agent… Read More
2020-07-29 00:50
Mrs. Emma Davis400 Forest AvenueAtlanta, Georgia15 June 2020Dear Mrs. Davis,I am writing as follow up to your letter dated December 5, 1938 to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In your lette… Read More
2020-05-17 18:48
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I dreamed I was carrying a dead man on my back. The stench of his decomposing flesh poisoned each breath. His weight bent my shoulders like a sack filled with cotton. He had been dea… Read More
2020-05-08 23:45
Bro Yao (Hoke S Glover, III)Tai Chi practitioner and poet, Bro Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) is at the table today with V. Efua Prince talking about living with books. Glover founded and operated… Read More
2020-05-03 02:23
Rahima RiceJoin us at the table as V Efua Prince talks with Rahima Rice about changing food and changing neighborhoods. Growing up in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC, carryouts… Read More
2020-04-16 21:14
On this episode, my guest is the Artistic Director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, MD, Chil Kong. On the drive in to work in the morning, he centers himself. Kong carried from hi… Read More
2020-04-06 15:49
Join me in this episode when Sami Miranda is at the table. He talks about inheriting hundreds of photographs taken by his grandfather, documenting decades of family life, as well as the Puer… Read More
2020-03-22 17:20
At the table with me today is Dr. Monifa Love Asante who shares memories of the basement of her childhood home, which was divided between her father’s dental office and her mother&rsqu&hell…Read More
2020-03-05 18:43
Exhibit D: Lipstick and rifles Ukrainian womenJoin me March 2, 2020 on the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers for this wide ranging conversation with Olha Ony… Read More
2020-03-05 18:31
Exhibit C: The beauty of chunky blanketsMy grandmother spent the latter years of her life making quilts and blankets for those she loved. Perhaps that is why I find myself making blankets fo… Read More
2020-03-05 18:31
Join us February 17, 2020 as my guest, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman talks about food and family. She writes creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in publications including Catapult, The Washingt… Read More
2020-03-05 18:22
Join me for the first episode of the new podcast: Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers. Sit with me as I ponder over what to do with mounds of old photos. An… Read More
2020-02-27 16:43
I wash clothes. I fold clothes. I fight a losing battle to keep those clothes in a drawer and off the floor. Why on earth do I spend so much time in this struggle? Listen as I explain… Read More
2020-02-21 17:06
Exhibit H: Family and inspiration with Rion Amilcar ScottOn this episode, listen as V Efua Prince talks with Rion Amilcar Scott about how raising two boys serves as both obstacle and inspir… Read More
2020-02-05 17:29
Exhibit G: Keeping house with Sarah TrembathThe state of a room can reflect the state of mind. Join me on March 23, 2020 for Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers as I… Read More
2020-02-05 13:25
Exhibit F: Exit at willSit with me for a few minutes while I think about painting my front door. The front door of a house sees so much action. When I look at it now, I am reminded of the a… Read More
2020-02-02 20:29
Exhibit E: Ironing and invisible laborAs the one charged with the care of laundry, there’s hardly been a day in nearly 30 years when I have not been acutely aware of the underwear situ… Read More
2020-01-13 20:26
click picture to listenExhibit C: The beauty of chunky blankets
My grandmother spent the latter years of her life making quilts and blankets for those she loved. Perhaps that is why I find m… Read More
2020-01-12 22:42
Join us February 17, 2020 as my guest, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman talks about food and family. She writes creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in publications including Catapult, The Washing… Read More
2020-01-12 22:23
Exhibit D: Lipstick and rifles Ukrainian women
Join me March 2, 2020 on the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers for this wide ranging conversation with Olha On… Read More
2020-01-10 17:50
Keep me company with my new podcast–Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers, while I reflect on beauty, truth, and justice.
Live February 2020 Read More
2018-01-22 08:16
Love is patientThat is a metaphor. Meaning the author is conveying an idea about “love” by showing us something different. A metaphor is an equation that presents the… Read More
2018-01-15 08:16
Today after 28 years (nearly 26 years married) my husband and I chose to love each other again. He got up and went out into the cold winter’s morning for donuts. We ar… Read More
2018-01-05 18:38
I wrote this sentence and that thing made me incredibly happy. I was like Now that’s a good ass sentence!Clear evidence that God still loves women and writers. It wasn&rsqu&hell…Read More
2018-01-03 10:35
3 January 2018My husband and I watched Armageddon, one of those old action films that pictures Bruce Willis as hero. He’s a cranky oil driller who’s called upon by the US g… Read More
2017-12-22 12:39
Winter Solstice—the longest night22 December 2017, 3:00 amYesterday, I awoke feeling pretty crappy. I wonder if my heart is acting funky. Or maybe I am having some odd reac… Read More
2017-12-20 11:36
I wrote this sentence and that thing made me incredibly happy. I was like Now that’s a good ass sentence!Clear evidence that God still loves women and writers. It wasn&rsqu&hell…Read More
2017-12-20 07:21
I am picking up this blog to document my journey back to health. This is my reboot. A lot has changed in five years. My original opening in 2012 was this:This fall I sent my elde… Read More
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