I Wonder What Her Name Is: Moments of Compassion

  On a recent shopping excursion at Walmart, I rounded a corner in the nutrition section, heading toward the dental products, when I got behind a woman who was pushing her cart very slowly. She was a petite Black woman who seemed a bit tinier than me, but as my...

Letting Go of the Remnants of a Dream…

In the summer of 2012, my then fiance brought his lawn care equipment and tool chest to my house to store in my garage. Having received a coveted fellowship at a major university, he closed up the house he’d been renting and moved to the central part of the...