did i hear you correctly? did you say “coloured”? did you refer to people of my colour as “coloured”? did you really do that? are you really that ignorant? i mean, yes, there are things we all don’t know. there are things some of us may never know. but come on! really? coloured? perhaps it…
Author: wordhabit
liberia — it’s in my blood
i’ve been doing research on liberia for an encyclopedia entry (yeah, i’m taking this writing thing seriously — it’s almost overwhelming me).* as i read, i find out things that confirm my memories and other things that make my head spin. i lived in such corruption, under its nose. i was sheltered just enough to…
time well spent
i’ve been missing my time spent with God so i hoped i’d wake early so i could talk to Him and read the bible and talk some more. so after my crazy nightmare was documented, we spent time in Acts 27. courage — my pastor always asks me how my courage is. hope — the…
i’m so hungry
i was in my 2nd year of the MA program in english literature, the one thing i’d loved since birth it seemed. i transferred back to AU b/c my first year had been so hard at the public university — i needed something familiar. during that first semester, i took a lit class that somehow…
oh yeah!
i’ve got good news and i’m so used to being formal with my speech that i can’t even share it without sounding stuffed. i just deleted a sentence that i thought clearly expressed my happiness but please, who was i kidding. what i really want to say is: i’m getting published!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! okay, it’s not my…
why
am i still working on this proposal? because i didn’t work enough in the past. and as much as i’d like to postpone tomorrow, the day when post offices reopen, the day when i can send a fax, the day when i have to tutor, to plan song service, to write an article… tomorrow is…
use your words carefully
this record is broken broken is this record is this record broken? this broken is record record, this is broken broken, this record is this broken record is is this broken record? is broken record this? is record this broken? if 95% of what we say is foolish does that mean the other 5% is…