Dear Lily June, I owe you updates on the bad things, like how deeply I’ve sunk into a staggering depression,… Read more On Today Today
Category: Society & Social Justice
Scared, Paranoid, Angry, American–On the Occasion that The Words Have Become Synonyms
Dear Lily June, If I can’t say it here, anonymously, where can I? I whisper confess: I think I am losing… Read more Scared, Paranoid, Angry, American–On the Occasion that The Words Have Become Synonyms
Reaching Out–On the Occasion that You Feel a Light Switch Has Been Flipped on Your World
Dear Lily June, Yesterday, a colleague and friend, Kimmy, came into my office and said she just didn’t understand the… Read more Reaching Out–On the Occasion that You Feel a Light Switch Has Been Flipped on Your World
The Profound South, Part II–On the Occasion that You Travel to the Country (within the Country)
Dear Lily June, As completely un-Southern as it is of me to do, I’m just going to get right to… Read more The Profound South, Part II–On the Occasion that You Travel to the Country (within the Country)
Our Leader Seemed So Sure–On the Occasion of the Inauguration in America
Dear Lily June, I had thought about saying nothing. I had thought about putting this out into the universe in… Read more Our Leader Seemed So Sure–On the Occasion of the Inauguration in America
Quotation Challenge, Day 3–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Dear Lily June, Allow me to repeat myself. Day 1 explains a little more about this, but essentially for three… Read more Quotation Challenge, Day 3–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Quotation Challenge, Day 2–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Dear Lily June, Day 1 explains a little more about this, but essentially for three days, I’m using the quotation… Read more Quotation Challenge, Day 2–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Quotation Challenge, Day 1–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Dear Lily June, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a paragon of virtue, a human pantheon of knowledge and a… Read more Quotation Challenge, Day 1–On the Occasion of an Impending Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Captured–On the Occasion That We Take a Picture
Dear Lily June, I have a complex relationship with cameras and selfies, in no small part because I have a complex… Read more Captured–On the Occasion That We Take a Picture
Invisible Man–On the Occasion that Your Mother Takes Up Reading Harder
Dear Lily June, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is ostensibly a novel about (forgive the heresy of the paraphrase here) a black man who… Read more Invisible Man–On the Occasion that Your Mother Takes Up Reading Harder
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