Sheila Penelope Thorne

The Black Issue

Nia Wilson died when her throat was slashed in an unprovoked attack on a BART train a few weeks ago; the day I turned 60.

Facebook showed this photo I posted three years ago today. It reminded me how different some things are. I took the week off to do nothing

This is like eating that entire bag of chips. You know you did it, you were there for every moment and yet it still comes

I published my first blog post on July 14, 2014. I’ve done 210 weekly posts. It reminds me, every now and then we need to

I had this moment of clarity. The Hasan Minaj, interview on the New Yorker radio hour. It’s right after 9/11, Hasan is a teenager and

“Based on a true story.” That is code for a condensed version of the story, trimmed down to be told in a short period of

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