Author Archives: Ann

March 14

Black History Month and Everything After

I have a two year old, and he has a ridiculous library of picture books. Even so, we go each week to the public library.  In February, the children’s section featured a display of books for Black History Month. There were picture books that discussed important events in African American history, including the horrifying history […]

November 30

What Ann’s Reading Now: My Little House Project

The odd thing about following a passion to graduate school is that at some point you realize your deepest love has become your work. While this seems, and is, ideal, you also begin to lose touch with why it is your passion in the first place. At some point during graduate school, I forgot what […]

September 06

Coming to the Table

Our family table was once my grandmother’s. It is on the smallish side with a delicate finish. It has traveled with me my whole adult life. It is where my friend Rick and I ate BBQ pork and drank large cans of Bottington’s after a night class in Virginia. It is where my husband and […]