I love this quote
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.” — Zora Neale Hurston
Making friends and finding my way
The first week here was a little hit and miss: Andy’s cousin Rebecca generously let me me stay at her house for the rest of the week, but she lives in Weston which is a suburb northwest of Miami and southwest of Ft. Lauderdale, so it took about 30 minutes or so to get anywhere […]
Je suis arrivée!
Y’all — I made it! At about 9:30 pm, I pulled into the driveway of my friend Andy’s cousin Rebecca who lives in Weston, Florida. Andy comes in tomorrow at about 4pm, so Rebecca has generously offered to let me stay chez elle while Andy is in town so that we can all do stuff […]
Today is the Day!
Well, I made it to Darien, Georgia, with the intentions of going over to Sapelo Island and taking a Geechee tour. “A what tour?” you may ask. Well, I got the idea from a movie that is one of my favorites from a visual standpoint, “Daughters of the Dust“, directed by Julie Dash. This movie […]
Finally – Leaving the cold and heading South!
Finally!! It was balmy driving from Pennsylvania to New York on Thursday — I think the temperature was at or near 60 degrees. It was beautiful and sunny — unseasonably warm, but very pleasant, given that is was the middle of January. Well, the party was over by Saturday: it started out raining for the […]
