by bZar | Jul 4, 2006 | Life and Reflections
I wanted to share a little something to honour this celebration but had a hard time finding something that I felt represented to me all that is good about and all of my best memories of the United States. Just as I was about to give up, I found this sweet video....
by bZar | Jun 13, 2006 | Life and Reflections
Gather two or more Black women together for any appreciable amount of time and the conversation will eventually get to the topic of hair. I was about six years old when I discovered that one can have either “good” hair or “bad” hair. Curlier or “nappy” hair was bad...
by bZar | Apr 5, 2006 | Life and Reflections
This was my first car. It was a 1969 Chevelle and cost $25. I was dating a mechanic, Pat, at the time and for my 18th birthday he bought it for me off a farmer in Lunenberg, Ontario. It had been sitting in the farmer’s barn for years with a seized engine, missing...
by bZar | Apr 4, 2006 | Life and Reflections
The other day while in the car, I was listening to a performance of First Nations drumming on the CBC. Caught up in their cadence and the sound of their chants I began to recall the first time I had attended a Pow Wow… When I knew him, Bill was a tall, thin man in his...
by bZar | Feb 26, 2006 | Life and Reflections
I am a child of the space race; the progeny of unprecedented technological and scientific discovery. Mine was the generation who gazed at the nightime sky in hopes of spotting orbiting space capsules; who looked to science to explain life’s mysteries. I remember...
by bZar | Dec 23, 2005 | Life and Reflections
My fear of birds began on a roof top in Brooklyn, New York. My mom had taken us to visit one of her friends and being bored, the kids decided to go exploring through the apartment building. We ended up on the roof not knowing that the steel door had slammed and locked...
