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Front Doors That Have Let Poetry Into My Life
The house smelled like sugar biscuits, fried onions, and cabbage bredie. To me, it was a rare and comforting smell. There was something almost...
Blame It On Apartheid: The Middle Class, Relational Hunger And The Modern Family Dynamic
Lennox
Lennox is down on his luck. In his late thirties he sports a beard. He looks older than he really is, has dreadlocks and...
The Novelist’s Burning Sincerity To Bring Words To Life
Here there are no ducks in the park in their own world of silence marking time with their song. I am utterly alone. I...
12 Rules For My Life: My Antidote To This Century
Rule 1 Be kind and expect nothing in return. Be the eternal optimist.
Rule 2 Have no expectations because that will literally kill your self-esteem.
Rule...
Power, War and Critical Thinking
Critical thinking and self-mastery are established roleplayers of the intellectual personality. The journey of life should be to remain self-aware in the event of...
How Dr Jordan B. Peterson Changed My Life
The steak knives were missing. Is there any value in that truth?
Give me a little earth. A place in the sun. A bowl of...
A Ghost Story About An Ancestor From The West Indies
Ella's (the birth name of the Dominican novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys’) ghost sits at the foot of my bed staring at...
The Writer’s Daughter
I have to learn how to trust again. Live a little. Let go of Santa Monica, autumn’s quaint country, cloud people, clowns with stars...
Adverse Childhood Experience (trauma focus)
"I don't love you, Octavia. I don't love you. I don't love you. Octavia wanted to tell her mother, if you don't love me,...
Attempting Suicide: The Human Stain, Lady Macbeth and Sylvia Plath
I was always looking for love. Here, see, my gorgeous wrists that I tried to slit once upon a time maybe because of him...