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Reading: “Love in the Time of Cholera”

June 16, 2011

One of my goals for this summer was to spend some time just reading and writing, and enjoying it. Over the last few years, it…
Children with No Adult Advocates

June 13, 2011

I recently read this Washington Post blog in which UNC education professor Bill McDiarmid responds to an experience during an after-discussion following the movie, “Waiting…
Reading: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by August Wilson

June 2, 2011

Last night, I finished reading August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” about an ill-fated blues recording session in 1927. Unlike in “Fences” or “The…
Reading: “The Piano Lesson” by August Wilson

May 31, 2011

Last weekend, I finished reading “The Piano Lesson,” a two-act play by August Wilson, which I am reading for a brief independent study course on…