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• Walking While Black
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• the absence of louisiana
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• not right but better…
• Multitudes
• different kind of black folks
• #6 Fear*
• #3 Music*
• texist
• holiday of faith
• an accident revisted
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• Give Water Give Health
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• cruel tool
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• body of work
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• polio wars
• scents seize me
• cheese melt
• culture hoard
• getting wet
• tadpoles and time
• it's been a long time coming…
• food in the time of leprosy
• the work i can do
• 24 Pills
• Working Ganta
• Another Bright Spot
• Grace Revisited
• My Husband
• thank you, farewell, happy birthday?
• taxiing around
• call to beauty
• spider promises
• Grace
• "they're only weevils!"
• generosity
• sheep tones
• remains of the day…
• the falls the falls
• clinics
• To the hospital
• Bye Stanley, Bye
• raining in the dust
• goat soup and Orion
• birth in the time of driving
• First sight
• geaux saints geaux!!!
• liberian birthday to me…
• liberia birthday to me…
• fade to…
• Three liter day
• foreign in language
• A more balanced perspective?
• Darn flu shot
• Privatization
• crazy ants
• palm frond translations
• Hit and run
• two-year-old times
• war weapons
• fragile waters
• wheelbarrow economy
• trees and busses
• my name
• one match
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• white woman
• long distance sick-ing
• musings on an early morning ride
• Firestone: a Brightspot perspective
• Brightspot
• humbled
• waste not want not
• unwanted
• eggs
• eating her tail
• pre-christmas darkness
• green christmas
• cheese
• doughnut grease
• liberian from liberia
• 4 in 6 billion
• work
• "where my christmas?"
• work
• the body
• walking home
• dressing room
• patron saint
• My pe kin
• 4 am
• tubman
• chores
• Shield
• hospital smile
• songs to sing
• Dimples
• closer inspection
• first
• touchy touchy
• one of THOSE sundays
• Saturdaze
• friday market
• star light, dim night
• sisters of the yam…er…lentil
• i think i'm gonna like it here…
• a different kind of sunday
• late night in the serengeti
• open invitation to a wedding
• still; unstill
• puffy sleeves chronicle
• donor pendulum
• six and three possible
• the men in my life
• starbucks, strip malls, and snapper?
• rough around the sundays
• product of war
• late night in the big city (kinda)
• mef dreams
• getting started
• practice makes…
• getting settled
• cold water welcome
• robbed
• the past presently
• home
• living
• grace
• poetry?
• magnolias
• cherries
• hope… (an original poem)
• believe II
• believe
• swine isn't the flu's flu
• a little bit of me showing
• nearly far
• southern bacon
• breast isn't best?
• always talk to strangers
• pressing
• out of shape dancer in my mind
• writing envy
• To Breathe
• titles
• khan
• time
• rhythmically challenged
• i'm 33
• judge and jury
• shimmy shimmy
• free
• a woman between my legs
• fear
• retraction
• Protest live streaming
• board instead of bored
• why i don't wear that dress anymore
• protest or riot
• profiling
• Rejection!
• fog
• just like me?
• christmas christmas time was here
• urban?
• i wonder if my IRAs will be worth anything – ever…
• trippin' on guilt
• In transit…
• final night
• i'm gonna try anyway…
• so much to say
• oh my sore bum
• lewd perspective
• brown sugar and stuff
• nile musings
• metro to antiquity
• walk like an egyptian
• Egypt
• my so called life
• …
• the real truth is in the NYT
• yes…
• friendly perspective
• two selves
• what i do i am
• hey sarah palin
• isms
• one john too many
• Entry for October 02, 2008
• home away
• B
• i'm a really sad looking star on youtube…
• cruzin'
• hope palin and reality
• before the sun
• buried
• obama
• wandering
• splendor
• friendship
• kindness
• straight talk
• female roles
• your brain on…
• busy
• dance
• smoking
• the fourth
• So you think you can dance…
• open letter to obama
• game night
• cherry summer
• redemption?
• oh hillary
• no hippo's here
• profound
• rough draft
• bay days
• conflicted
• a ballet evening
• anti-facebook
• SAUL send me your email
• 50 cent eggs
• ears wide shut
• a daughter's love
• Vajay-jays
• on my mind
• Because he like to look at it…
• V-Day
• Come to the Vagina Monologues
• smiling has no season
• talk about perspective
• hope
• hope is both weapon and tool..wield it well…
• not that i'm biased…
• the evil empire
• work balance life
• love
• glass
• 5 shots?
• the problem with starting over
• not so temporary
• please, have a seat
• the bridge
• feeling good on a beautiful fall day
• or not footsteps
• family et al
• "we drink, we smoke, we eat bacon wrapped hot dogs"
• it's a small world after all…
• possible saint
• it takes all kinds to make a city
• in defense of the tenderloin
• a different kind of hunger
• LA phone home…
• i'm here!
• four year old wake up calls
• 12-year-old self
• enjoying the now
• housing
• i'm back!
• truth
• still searching for my stage
• missing
• i'm going to miss new orleans
• spectacle
• rejection
• words
• slack
• traveling in home
• speechless…almost
• he says it better than i did
• gas
• free speech isn't just for the words you agree with
• 6 degrees and counting
• news?
• mudbug fest
• graduation
• woman
• baby
• crisis of career
• walking part II
• neighborhood watch
• i forgot
• wandering
• the v-word
• All of the VM crew
• Part of the VM crew
• Amazingly close
• Quote
• vaginas on stage
• vaginas in progress
• goodbye
• serving self?
• et tu walmart
• mardi musn't
• gunnin'
• where they meet
• it ain't uptown
• worse and worse before a little better
• are you paranoid if you are right
• paranoia
• which doll would you pick?
• mardi gras begins
• will work for free
• you speak so well…
• v=vagina v=violence
• pocketbooks
• homeless
• home
• solar powered
• africa in africa
• water isn't water
• broken windows
• despite the single
• sunshine
• capitalists
• graduation
• ominous
• sleep
• NO return
• girlfriends
• crap
• 'tis the season
• home sweet home
• broken
• mud
• beyond seeing
• zorbing
• a dream realized
• george chavez? hugo bush?
• home sweet homeless
• beetroot
• fewer and fewer
• turkey day goes kiwi
• nyc new years
• IPLS
• guests
• wondering
• 150,000+
• more complaining
• stress
• like sands in the hourglass…
• one more thing than a string of others
• this ain't kansas
• quote
• ask no questions?
• nag
• just a word?
• pink elephants in the room
• deserts and floods
• festival of ills
• coming home
• questions
• MSF
• grumpy
• poetry
• soul less
• nigerian independence day (oct 1)
• …where the heart is
• geek fun
• bloomin
• out of cyberspace
• quick drying cement
• zoo outing
• I'm back!
• evil
• hop hop a licious
• an opportune opportunity
• exotic fruit
• reefs and water
• so blue
• headed for sun
• a foundation of garbage
• city of sails
• careful what you wish for
• guns germs and steel
• blue and fuzzy
• evidence
• white stuff
• another day
• talk about busy
• liberal cliche'
• fox and a seesaw
• girls just wanna
• i love food
• contradicitions
• class fatigue
• my apartment is hell
• a poet used to live here
• if you love hip hop or black folks
• my anthem
• my father's child
• dead man's chest should stay dead
• read this…no really…read this…
• we're back
• journey in motion
• eve
• patriotism
• prayer
• off key
• free
• knitting
• trust
• planning for two
• bias
• a dark day in idiocy
• sleepless
• joan of arcadia
• hives
• no marathon but definitely endorphins
• a day in my life
• in the brown
• boundaries
• lost children
• the a.m.
• cruelty
• the trouble with brown
• what…
• a day without an immigrant
• goodbyes
• lost in translation
• idle or busy…the devil's playground
• not in kansas
• international lunch
• Entry for April 05, 2006
• blue skied rain
• too much
• still calm
• bing bang the fridge is here
• pre-child contemplation
• sails and orchids
• virtual reality
• no matter…
• always speak to strangers
• frailty
• great friends all around
• social capital
• the wave of the future
• 10,000 years will give you such a krick in the neck*
• …your daddy's rich and your ma she's good looking…
• What the…?
• NYT article – Lack of Food Not Main Cause of Child Malnutrition, Study Says
• lesson learned
• Octavia Butler 1947-2006
• a real one…
• ma’am mix a lot
• newer updates on N.W.A.
• well worth the read…N.O. recovery (click story to read the rest)
• when music was
• follow up to N.W.A.
• N.W.A.
• boobs, bras and boob*
• slow day
• strange bedfellows
• comfort food
• n zed
• i'm here
• me and my mouth
• iPoding
• boxing self
• fuzzy lines
• music
• roe v. wade rant
• An interesting article
• love
• archetype auction
• match point
• without homes
• 27 1/2
• groupie
• girl crush
• house *iggers
• once were
• a lesson learned
• change 'gon come
• tolerance
• goodbye
• multitudes
• habits
• all around the world we're going crazy: race riots in australia
• visa aren't forever
• crash
• is it paranoia
• deep not good
• home sweet nowhwere
• otherness
• i need folks out of my uterus
• pissed on not off
• the other day
• livingston
• thundering lullaby
• a lot of walking
• hypocrisy or dichotomy
• odds and ends
• the hills that i climb
• deet not eyedrops
• old thoughts continued with some new
• backtracking a little
• i had a thought (still no notebook)
• flores
• sweat in a new forest
• yo estoy aqui
• on the eve of leaving
• manhood
• FEMA-esqe Friends
• irony
• sleep
• headed out
• home sweet someone else's home
• everything to nothing
• guatemala
• mile of sorrow
• a smile
• thank you thank you thank you
• almost normal
• cameron is here!
• i'm as tired of complaining as you are of reading my complaints
• people are special…today's second blog
• succumbing
• READ THIS AND PASS IT ON
• silence
• i have no words
• no good deed goes unpunished
• we've moved up…err…over
• potential chaos
• a long drive back
• a step back
• on the road again
• hypocrite i am
• a second to breathe
• tired beyond tired
• on a different note
• departing on sunday
• all but cement
• just for giggles…or not
• i don't write much anymore
• choices…help now or later
• a selfish me
• hmmmmm….
• i'm trying but not succeeding
• not bad but not great
• running from the wind
• more than murder
• Sri Lanka – July 29, 2005
• Sri Lanka – July 28, 2005
• out of time
• July 27. 2005 – Sri Lanka
• July 26, 2005 Colombo, Sri Lanka
• July 24, 2005 Sri Lanka
• July 23, 2005 Sri Lanka
• a day away…
• Entry for July 16, 2005
• dreaming…
• Entry for July 13, 2005
• Dennis is coming
• change in focus
• The blame game
• middle ground?
• Entry for July 05, 2005
• Entry for July 01, 2005
• Entry for June 30, 2005
• Entry for June 27, 2005

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