March 13, 2020July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me/ I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.”
February 12, 2020July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “I don’t believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.”
December 12, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “It make one’s mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
November 20, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
October 17, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “If you wish success you must master the American language . . . I can tell in your face that you will not learn it.”
September 10, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.”
May 7, 2019 JMRL Blog “Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
February 17, 2019 JMRL Blog “I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”