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About Uncle Toms
I was at the family home, on 92nd.ย I was ranting and raving, calling certain black leaders “Uncle Toms.”ย My dad, who was just a plain working-class carpenter, got angry and said, “Boy, what the HELL ...
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Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform.ย At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell.ย WOW!!ย I happened to ...
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Purging with Marie Kondo: The Lack of Joy in Middle-Class American Households
I am captivated by Americaโs fascination with Marie Kondo. Namedย Timeโs most influential person, Kondo is a 34-year old Japanese millennial (or xennial is it?) and professional home organizer whose books have sold millions of copies. Over ...
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Escaping into Music and Fashion Part II: Alexander McQueen
From High School Drop Out to World-Renowned Fashionista As a closeted goth (which wasnโt exactly cool in Bronx public schools in the late 90s) who scribbled dark and depressing poetry on the margins of her notebooks, ...
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Escaping into music and fashion: Whitney Houston and Alexander McQueen
Part I Like most Americans I am obsessed with celebrities. I am often that annoying person holding up the line at the local Rite Aid with her one item (usually Twix caramel chocolate bar), thumbing idly ...
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Poems
Bedroom Window Musty gray dawn trespasses into the noon hour; And one looks like the other from this side of my bedroom window. Weather stained pawn malingers from stale to sour; And one smells like the ...
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Thinking about Papa Heinz
Ketchup makes bad fake blood Because it doesnโt stir the right Kind of horror or nervousness. Itโs too sweet looking and gooey. The red it all wrong and dried it Doesnโt leave that flat rust stain ...
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On Reading Kenneth Fearingโs โThe Hospitalโ
โIโll never get used to this hospital smell of antiseptic, not even after all the times I visited Alice in Bellevue. Itโs the smell of the grave. Think of something without that smell. Think of something ...
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Italian Auto Workers Demand Red Card
The mega-rich Italian Agnelli family has bulging coffers.ย They own the Fiat Chrysler Corporation, Ferrari, and have a controlling interest in Turinโs Juventus football team, one of the premier clubs in Europe.ย The Agnellis arenโt exactly ...
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Viva Mexico! Dispatches from the World Cup
Little Italy in the Bronx is slowly waking up from the previous nightโs revelry. A man wearing a โKiss me, Iโm Italianโ t-shirt sets up his makeshift sidewalk kitchen, soon to be selling zeppoles, sausage, and ...
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