by Kim Brown | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Four weeks ago, when I wrote the Boundaries blog, I asked the question: why do I write? And I found myself thinking about the sixth grade. I was a late bloomer. I still wore a little-girl undershirt, while all my friends sported training bras. Whenever we got a...
by Kim Brown | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
My grandmother kept a baseball bat underneath her bed. Every night she’d collect the day’s burglaries, rapes and murders from the eleven o’clock news and then slide her nightstand in front of the door before climbing into the bed. Whenever my sister and I slept over...
by Kim Brown | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Julia is fourteen years old and the youngest member of my Thursday morning art class. When I first started, I thought it was odd that she wasn’t in school. But then I learned that she went to an alternative school that allowed her to spend more time developing her...
by Kim Brown | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Something I can never explain, or even fully understand, pulled me back here. – Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder When I read that line in Kingsolver’s essay, “Knowing Our Place”, I felt sad. It made me think of Detroit....
by Kim Brown | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
This morning as I pushed the button to open my garage, I saw something running along the door frame of the double garage door. I quickly turned back into the house and slammed the door. I grabbed my cell phone and called my husband. I told him what I saw and waited...
