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  • Hello and thank you for having me. I suffer from systemic lupus (with fibromyalgia) and agoraphobia, all of which can be very "invisible" at times. The lupus has affec...
  • Novel in progress, South of Light's End: Violet skies canopy over the ocean. Completed and in process of querying, White Star: The tribal drum thumped in my head, animal skin stretched over hollowed wood.
  • When I decided to write about the murder of my brother I received little if no support.  I wrote a memoir; my brothers murder and my reaction.  My story. I decided if...

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    I was halfway through “Homegoing” before I began to connect with it. As Yaw, a histor...dependence. Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in America. I suspect Yaw was modeled on her father, of whom she...
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    I was born with a brain that works differently. I knew always, but the things my brain wouldn't do seemed so unimportant and so outweighed by its strengths that it wa...
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    I was halfway through “Homegoing” before I began to connect with it. As Yaw, a histor...dependence. Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in America. I suspect Yaw was modeled on her father, of whom she...

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  • Amy Wise commented on her article Love Is Not A Skin Color.....
    Kevin I think you are right. In her case I think part of it is she is having so many struggles in her life in regards to men she justifies this thinking with the old.....
  • I believe when you put yourself out there, you'd better be ready for any and all kind of reactions. It's like putting on your "thick skin" for awhile while you read re...
  • "It hurts then to love. It is like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin" -- Susan Sontag