On loving The Alchemist at twenty-two, questioning it at thirty-eight, and learning that growth isn’t betrayal. I gave The Alchemist to someone I loved when I was twenty-two, convinced it would change their life the way I was certain it had changed mine. They handed it back three days later and said it felt like a greeting […]
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The title answered the curiosity that lays between almost all of us. Not the loud, dramatic kind of worry that announces itself and demands attention, but the low hum kind. The worry that sits with you over breakfast. That follows you into conversations you are supposed to be present for. That wakes up slightly before
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This is the story of a woman who should never have been forgotten in history. Born Marion Greener, a light-skinned Black woman in early 20th-century America, she reinvented herself as Belle da Costa Greene to pass as white. This was her only way into a world where women—let alone Black women—rarely succeeded. And succeed she
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It is my reasoned opinion that everyone should read “Nobody’s Girl”. Not because it’s easy; I’m afraid it’s not. Not because it will make you feel good; it definitely won’t. But because Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s story exposes a truth we’ve spent too long ignoring: that powerful men can traffic, abuse, and destroy young girls, and