When A Genre Inspires

I grew up on 80s-90s romantic comedies, and let me tell ya, those movies and TV shows were so unfunny, so harmful, and so toxic, that I wasn...

  • What's the BIG Idea? Part 1
    The short story I'm tweaking has to do with my "Tabber the Red" milieu, where, on a fantasy world, upright cats live, worship,...
  • Of innocence and purity
    A friend didn't want me to explain the song, "Me and Mrs. Jones" to HER friend. Her argument that while she herself was innoc...
  • More from the notebook...
    By speaking to many Southerners (of Color), I learned how my Caribbean/West Indian background has been woven into the narrative of Southern ...