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Are you there God? It's Me, Kalisa

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you didn't know by the title that this post is about the books of Judy Blume, then this post may not be for you. Also,...

Of all the fine arts, painting is perhaps the one I understand the least. But I do get Van Gogh. When I sat in front of Starry Nights in...

My muppet history begins with Sesame Street, but my family's history with Jim Henson's creations go back much further than that. I am of...

Sometimes the weirdest memories come to me out of nowhere. When I was in high school, my only real side job was babysitting. I sat for...

Well this was an unexpected result of the longest, most treacherous, most trying, worst ever year of my life. I have caught the Christmas...

This year, I took the goodreads challenge and set a goal to read 50 books. I surpassed that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Turns out...

Lawd...have we ever wanted a year to end more than this one? I can't even stand to see my Facebook memories. Last Christmas we were in...

I want to tell you what it was like to go to public school in the late 70s. In Mississippi. My family moved to Long Beach, Mississippi,...

Chip started watching a movie called Queen's Gambit about an orphan girl who becomes a chess champion. "You'll like this," he told me....

Growing up, I was not the book reader in my family. That was my older sister. I was the "talented one." The singer. I still read books...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.