Monthly Archives: April 2025

When I was in culinary school, I asked one of my new friends, who happened to be a black man, why no one would talk to me or sit by me. My class was full of 20 and 30-something people, mostly military people starting a new career. He just laughed at me and said, “They ...

In 1987, I met a boy. He was different than any other boy I had ever met in my young life. I was 20, going on 21, and already engaged to another boy. The boy who was to be my husband was what I was used to; he lived his life inside the box and ...