Is there another age you associate with yourself in your mind? If so, what is it? And why, do you think? Do you feel old for your age? Young for your age? Just right? Are you in step with your peers? I am the age I am and keep in step with my eight sister-girlfriends who range from 30 and to Louis, Missouri; and in Vegas.
Just because I could. In September , he became an ordinary man after our shared honey-moon living. With compassionate clarity, I asked him to leave my Vegas apartment. And he did. Between September and March , I turned Vegas into my creative writing sabbatical.
Without asking permission. Without apology. Owning my brilliance. And continuing to be a positively overwhelming powerhouse. So far, I have self-published Landscapes , a chapbook of photos and poems January As editor of my literary imprint, MultiCreative Wisdom, I just put a call out for women writers of color for an anthology. Because I want to become creatively stimulated and engaged by an intentional community of U.
Still, too often I am featured in predominantly White virtual and on-the-ground spaces. At 55, I am more fully celebrating how capacious my mind is. Meanwhile, I am teaching an online graduate-level creative nonfiction course and tutoring adult students online in German, Spanish, ESL, and public speaking.
At 55, I finally learned how to embrace myself more wholly instead of distancing my mind and my spirit from my physical self. I am joyfully a fat, brown, strong, big-breasted, sensual, highly passionate, multilingual Puerto Rican woman with naturally curly salt and pepper hair, Type II diabetes, intense Tigger energy, SAD seasonal affective disorder , and an insatiable joy for teaching and learning.
