This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
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"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."
It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
"Once I have the first line or two, the rest of the poem seems to flow rather easily. I write whatever comes to mind. Somewhat like a story rather than a poem. I then start to take out the excess words and phrases and pare it down to the essence of what I wish to say. Other times I do not change a word. The muses come and go on their own. I also believe poetry has chosen me."
Atlas Markers: An Emerging Autoethnography Author’s Memo Atlas Markers n is largely a thought-piece on the development of a research...
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
"When a favorite perfume ceases to exist, it is another kind of death. Having been created, it leaves a special sort of emptiness," from Eulogy for a Perfume.
"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."
In this story I shifted my attention to the young woman –a nurse or a volunteer– who sat beside me and held my hand throughout abortion.
"Autoethnography and culture: Embodied inquiry is not a formula, or methodology, but a way of being, being open to the body as a source of knowledge, wonder, difficulty, fragility and utter joy."
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