Alice Walker celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday on Saturday. Walker's novels, essays, and poems are a receptacle for black women's...

Quotes from Toni Morrison’s Beloved , New York: Vintage Books, 1987 Django Unchained reminded me that Toni Morrison’s theory of rem...

I take my tea very seriously (read here why) . On cold rainy days like today (or sunny warm ones) tea time is my perfect ritual to fo...

Jacket: Gap | Dress: Old Navy | Tights: Target | Shoes: Nine West  I love playing with patterns. A little levity in my wardrobe has...

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a dramatic film about a five-year-old girl on a quest. Along the way, she faces and defies the terror...

Sewing has become a refuge for me. I love the meditative hum of my machine as I tune out the world and focus on a project. The latest ...