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In this episode I read a short story from The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States Edited by Edwidge Danticat. This particular story touched me deeply, I am a former zombie girl turned to salt of the earth. I continue to share stories like these in order to revive all the other zombie girls out there. You are not alone. TRIGGER WARNING: Themes of child sexual abuse.

In this episode I share a story from The Butterfly’s Way: Voices of the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States edited by Edwidge Danticat.

In this episode I finish reading Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. Themes: Suffering, Drug Addiction, power of music

In this episode I begin reading Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. This is a short story based in Harlem in the 1950s, it’s about brotherhood, drug addiction, and dreams deferred.

In this very short episode I read Grace Paley’s short story: Mother. Theme: Mother/Daughter, Loss, Regret Happy Mother’s Day!

Welcome back to a new season of Carolina Reads! In this episode I share Night Women by Edwidge Danticat. Theme: Motherhood, Sacrifice, Survival Happy Mother’s Day!

In this episode I share some well known poems written to fathers, present and absent alike. While reading these poems I was inspired to write my own. Let me know what you think… ***Forgiving my father by Lucille Clifton, Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, Father from Asia by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, and A Message on your Voicemail by Carolina Huggins ***

ENG 333 The Short Story: In this episode I read A&P by John Updike. This story strikes me because a seemingly small encounter really effects this young man in such a big way.

In this short episode, I share an excerpt from Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer (Chapter 6: He Communicates Personally) Bible Verses Referenced: Isaiah 43:25, John 4:8, Romans 8:1

In this episode I read from the Holy Bible NIV version, the letter to the Ephesians by the apostle Paul.

Black Sister is a collection of poetry by Black American Women from 1746-1980, Edited with an Introduction by Erlene Stetson. In this episode I share from the Eighteenth and Nighteenth Century Poets.

I created this episode because my husband didnt have time to read the book himself for our small group. This chapter is about unrealistic expectations.

ENG 333 The Short Story : This short story is actually a chapter from Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine about the lives of two families on a North Dakota Reservation.

ENG 333 The Short Story: This is a short story written by Tillie Olsen in 1961. Its a story of a phone call from her teen daughter’s school and all that it brings up for her. I actually got emotional towards the end of reading this story. May we all be more than the dress and much more than just the iron.

ENG 333 The Short Story: In this episode I read a well known short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez is known to mix realistic and fantasitical ideas in his fiction and in the screen adaptation of this story he begins with a quotation from Hebrews 13:2 “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.”