The Green Chair by Alice Melott

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I exited the corporate world in 2006 and opened a real estate brokerage in Galveston, Texas. On September 13, 2008, we were wiped out by Hurricane Ike…
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When is a chicken sandwich a poison pill?
And when will white women embrace the power of their privilege?
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How do you know you know what you think you know?
In 1980, when I was 21, I moved to NYC from a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, called Mountain Brook. Mountain Brook was known to have among the top…
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Chatting with the checker at the grocery store the other day, and she told me about an earthquake off the coast of North Carolina that could cause a…
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Girls wear dresses and skirts
This was my first pair of long pants. It was my only pair of long pants until I got to high school, and I was only allowed to wear them when we went…
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Love Thy Neighbor; Melt Thy Handgun
Never in the history of the world has anyone died by a bullet when no gun was present. Guns kill people. Period. The minute we decide to put a handgun…
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What happens in New Orleans…
It was a helluva day in New Orleans, February 1971. I was 12, in 7th grade. I was wearing my favorite polyester navy and orange tunic and bell bottoms…
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The Arc of the Question Mark
He whispered in my ear at the first dress rehearsal. "Act short. Those heels make you too tall." It was 1979, and I had the great good fortune to be…
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Happy Birthday to Me
When she was a young starving actress, Barbra Streisand would sit at a bar in Greenwich Village and wait for somebody to offer to buy her a drink. “I’d…
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The Green Chair by Alice Melott
The Green Chair by Alice Melott
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