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Make Him a Balloon, Not a Ball and Chain.

It’s jolting how easily a desired ideal becomes delusion in the face of reality. My mother says my life has been, comparatively, charmed. I was an only child with a father who was only semi-absentee....

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Self-Portraiture.

i've been taking self-portraits since my 27th birthday, when i got my first digital camera. they're confidence builders. sometimes, i forget who all i am. photographs provide evidence that the you you...

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Motes and Beams.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? — Matthew 7:3 Last night, a woman cradled her abdomen and revealed the life growing...

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How Angry Single Black Mothers With Little Hope of Marrying–Ever!–Spend...

We spend it loving, spend it splaying schoolhouse Valentines into arcs on the carpet, prancing around them in circles wearing wings. We spend it grinning, giggling, pressing our foreheads to our...

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My Body, Broken for You.

Note: I wrote this in December ’11 for a contest I didn’t win. It’s strange that fiction was my grad school discipline; all I’ve written since then has been creative nonfiction. I haven’t given up on...

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A Refuge Among Amazons.

I am always allowed to ease in, a toe-swirl, a finger under a temperamental spigot, a cube of store-sample cheese in a paper cup: trial before the error inherent in commitment. This has been no...

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Stacia to Appear on NPR’s “Tell Me More” on April 16.

Tomorrow, I’ll be a guest on NPR’s nationally syndicated radio program, Tell Me More with Michel Martin. I’ve been invited to join author and family therapist Lori Gottlieb to discuss single...

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Stacia to Appear on NPR’s “Tell Me More” on April 16.

Tomorrow, I’ll be a guest on NPR’s nationally syndicated radio program, Tell Me More with Michel Martin. I’ve been invited to join author and family therapist Lori Gottlieb to discuss single...

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Hope Chest: Ep. 10 – Letting Go of Girl-Dads

1. The day before Kobe and Gianna Bryant died, I was already thinking of fathers and daughters, already musing over the insularity of their bond and how, once it solidifies, a mother needn’t do much...

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