: About Me

I'm a 52 year old, black, southern woman. I'm a poet, an attorney, and a former school teacher.

My passion is ...

writing

My childhood ambition ...

To become a writer

Why I write ...

Because I have something to say

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Looking In Seeing Out, about quantum theory and cosmology; watching Nip/Tuck, Heroes, 24, & Dr.Who; listening to Alice Smith and Corinne Bailey Rae

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Racism

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I read most of my news on the Internet. It saves my house from being cluttered with newspapers. I am not very domestic and I try to avoid housekeeping to the extent possible. I've been following a tragic story regarding the shooting death of a young college student, Eve Carson. She was student body president and in her senior year at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By all accounts, Ms. Carson was a highly intelligent, caring young woman with a promising future. The police have been very efficient and have arrested her killers. The motive appears to have been...

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