Being an avid reader and collector of knickknacks since I was a kid, the room I loved second-most to my bedroom in our house was the “front” room with the built-in bookshelves. Growing up in the countryside of eastern North Carolina, I couldn’t easily walk to my town’s library. So, to me, that room served as mine… Read More Ms. Lu’s Library – Book of the Month: The Alchemist
I had purchased this book over six months ago and let it linger on the lower shelf of an end table until last month. In a fit of purging and “clearing out” the old or unused to make space for the new – new ideas, new projects, new perspectives to fill the new freedom I’d been… Read More Book of the Month: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
“The hair is the most elevated point of your body, which means it is the closest to the divine. … Because the hair is the closest thing to the heavens, communication from the gods and spirits was thought to pass through the hair to get to the soul.” – from page 4 of Hair Story: Untangling… Read More I Am Not My Hair… Well, Not as Much as Before
As you all know, prolific reading makes you a better writer. So, in addition to realizing my dream of becoming a published writer, another one of the challenges I gave myself at the start of 2015 was to bring my inner “bookworm” back to life. To do that, I established a Goodreads account last weekend… Read More Book of the Month: Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps
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