My first best friend was the child of a migrant worker. I met her in first grade. I remember standing beside her in the cafeteria line. Looking into her brown eyes and thinking ‘she’s brown-skinned but not as brown as me.’ We were only friends for a season and then she (and her family) were […]
Practical is my middle name. (Actually it’s Leigh, rhymes with ‘see’, but you know what I mean.) I am not the person that you would mistake for the impulsive daredevil. Don’t get me wrong I crave adventure like the rest of us crazy Americans. Ok, maybe crave is a strong word. Adventure is over-rated. We
Pride and Prejudice. The Good Earth. The Chosen. 1984. A Raisin in the Sun. These are some of the works of fiction I read in a high school for fun. That’s right, I read them for fun. Okay, don’t judge. I lived in a small rural southern town. I didn’t grow up surrounded by books
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