Writing Exercise: write for ten minutes. Write about your childhood. What did your home, your neighborhood look like? What games did you play? Take it deeper. What made you feel ashamed when you were in grade school? When could you identify and understand shame? EXCERPT DRAFT FROM LOVE IMAGINED: My …
1967 one year after I graduated from high school. I was lookin’ for love in a frenzy. I think it was this desire to be loved that began my aha moments of knowing I was a Chinese Black Woman passing for White, and even though there were boys who liked …
I DIDN’T LEAVE YOUR MOTHER This is a difficult section of Love Imagined to write because I have to imagine a father I don’t know. I was five when my mom and dad divorced. Dad would drive down the alley once a week, honk the car horn, and wait for …
BLACKBIRDS Thanks for “liking” blackbirds on fb. Here’s the story. Chinese Blackbird is the title of my memoir in verse. Originally the title was A Woman’s Cycle, but friends liked Chinese Blackbird better. Here is a Chinese Blackbird by fugar and one by Neil. When I started reading about …
