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Today is Octavia E. Butler’s birthday.  If she were still alive, she’d be 62 and awesome.  She wrote science fiction and fantasy, and one of her aims was to change the world with it.  I think she did.  I think she still does.
I was privileged to be Octavia’s friend, to know her and hang with [...]


dear-father

Dear Father

Today is Father’s Day.  So I called my mother.
My mother mostly raised me and my two younger sisters by herself.  Dad divorced us when I was eight years old.  He moved to a town half an hour away, and I rarely saw him, despite promised weekend visits.  The Friend of the Court assessed him $35 a week child support.  He [...]