Winging It: Skies of Angst?
Summer’s upon us. Sunny weather, the skies cloudless most days (unless you live in San Francisco, I suppose) seem friendly, and what do you do with friendly skies? You fly them, of course. Unless you’re me. How friendly is cramming into an aluminum tube among hundreds of other angsty, temperamental travelers? This year I’m saving […]
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Lines that Blur: Color, Race, and That Time I Published a Book at Age Fifteen
Initially, I had a different post in mind this week; something about my fear of flying as it’s travel season and the theme figures prominently in my forthcoming novel, “Wings of Wax.” Then the Rachel Dolezal controversy hit the net, and my flight plan changed. As you undoubtedly already know, it came out last week […]
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Musing on Memphis
The other night, winding down after a day of writing, editing, and a completing a job interview, I watched this movie “Memphis.” In one of those cosmic instances where a piece of art perfectly syncs with your mood, the sentiments of this film struck deep in my chest like the reverberations of an amplified guitar […]
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There’s still a There Here
Yesterday was the first annual Oakland Book Festival downtown at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Amid green grass and the towering, Colonial Lego stack that is city hall, booths were set up for book sellers and authors to showcase their literary triumphs. The crowd was quintessentially Oakland: a mix of cultures and colors; revolutionaries and readers trading […]
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