blksista's profile 55, Female / Member since April 2009 / Last seen 1 month ago
I’m known as blksista on the pages of DailyKos, Jack and Jill Politics, and Booman Tribune, among others. If you don’t readily know who I am, you probably heard that I wrote a series of blog articles about the drowning of New Orleans, my birthplace. It took a long time for me to find my voice blogging, and these articles basically made my rep on DK.
It’s taken me a while, but I finally realized that I wanted my own blog as well as continuing to talk on other blogs about New Orleans, black people, culture, gossip/public intellectualism, politics, Buddhism, journalism and ethics, looksism, cooking, fiction, history, topics in womanism, writing, race, fashion, music and other topics of interest during this rather fractious time in American life and the life of the Republic.
What’s happening with me? Well, I am currently unemployed, but that situation may indeed change as time marches on. I am a writer. I have an MFA in creative writing and a BA in broadcast journalism. I’m a mid-Boomer or Jones Generation type. I am unmarried and an aunt. I am a Nichiren Buddhist. I’m a progressive with middle-class values. All this doesn’t mean I am not open to many other things, but there are naturally going to be things that I am never going to figure. That indeed may be a way for people to respond to each other, and not necessarily just to me. I live in Madison, WI, but I want to resettle back on the Left Coast, in California, Oregon, or Washington.
I’ll also be posting pieces of my essays and fiction for people to read and enjoy. I can accept thoughtful feedback and criticism.
Finally, I would like to say that I have a patron saint of blogging, and that, for all intents and purposes, is the late Steve Gilliard. I discovered Steve’s blog while I was living on 132nd Street in Harlem, New York between 2003-2005. Through him, I got a real introduction to New York politics. We talked privately online here and there, but I never got to meet him. I’m sure we even passed by each other while at I-HOP without knowing it. I am so sorry he is gone, because he would have truly enjoyed seeing Obama in the White House, and his former nemesis Steele in the dog house as chairperson of the GOP. I know that I could never be as audacious or as knowledgeable as Steve was during his short career, but he did teach me a few things. One: to be yourself and two: to say what is real. Then you’ll never be alone.
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