*I wrote this yesterday, May28, but couldn't post it due to internet connection issues.* Today is my birthday. On this day, it was a Sunday then, thirty-seven years ago, my mother, she was twenty-one then, was labouring me into this world. I was a small baby, long and skinny like a just-hatched bird, I am… Continue reading The Roots of my Tongue – A Birthday Soliloquy
On Happiness & The Changing Landscape Of Careers
I vividly remember my first job. I was twelve years old. In Grade 7. The job was to clean a dental office with my mother (she worked there during the day). I remember being excited about making money even though I wasn’t sure on what I wanted to spend the money. Every Friday night, my… Continue reading On Happiness & The Changing Landscape Of Careers
National Poetry Month Round-Up!
It’s May. What. The. Heck. Look, I’m willing to forgive Time his speedy madness because Mother Nature has finally given us the Spring we’ve been so desperately waiting for. (She does that, doesn’t she?) Even though in other parts of the world Mother Nature is not being so sweet (donate to the Red Cross to… Continue reading National Poetry Month Round-Up!
VANESSA SHIELDS 