It’s been a long week. Beginning November is a weird transition. In one moment, you are contemplating what kind of monster or rock star you will grace Halloween parties with and the next moment, your sister-in-law is asking whether you’ll make the Turkey this year while you suddenly see a commercial that has jingle bells […]
Author: Lisa
America, Please Stop Saying that Racism is Dead
…cuz it ain’t. As long as one of the presidential hopefuls can call the President elect an Uncle Tom, we still got problems. Big ones. Racists are active, voting citizens in this country. And while I’m still riding high on our historic YES WE CAN/YES WE DID mantra, we still have to deal (and work) […]
Anne Nixon Cooper vs. Joe the Plumber
If Joe the Plumber, the McCain supporting Ohioan who was the central force of the third and final presidential debate because of his tax questions and pursuit to buy his own business, got to meet Barack Obama, then it is TIME for Ann Nixon Cooper as well. Ann Nixon Cooper was the central force in […]
I Am, Ohio is, Purple: Election Reflections
My social security number is a fun topic of conversation in the Midwest. My SSN reveals the deep east of my roots. The parts of me that peed on the NYC slides growing up, skipping down New Jersey sidewalks, and thinking Manhattan was this small dirty playground in my backyard. I was eight when I […]
President Elect Barack Obama
Alright folks, Let’s get to work.
Letter #1
Dear Veronica, Someday you’ll read this and I hope that when you do, my words will make no sense at all. I hope that you actually throw your head back in such laughter that I even got emotionally invested in this moment because in the time that you absorb my words, that period will have […]
Election Eve
Ready. Champagne is in the fridge. My broken heart has healed from 2004. I’m ready for change.
In the Fridge
1 bottle of champagne. VOTE.
The Title Says It All
Go.
Happy Halloween
Candy corn rules. Don’t even think about giving out Brach’s candy. Give the Tootsie Rolls to the older ones with no costumes who don’t bother to say Trick or Treat. Play the Halloween movie theme music in the background all day. Forgo fake eyelashes. I always get an eye infection when I try them.