Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
This beautiful chapter from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning The Color Purple:
Dear Nettie,
I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
What happen to God? ast Shug.
Who that? I say.
She look at me serious.
Big a devil as you is, I say, you not worried bout no God, surely.
She say, ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
I gained my love of reading from my mother. Growing up she always had a book that she was reading. As I grew and my reading evolved from Archie and Spider-Man comic books to Stephen King and Pat Conroy I knew there were times that the adult fare ...
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