memoir

In Commentaries

Making a Way… Again.

December 19, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

              Worst of all, must Hope grow dim, And withhold her cheering beam? Rather let me sleep and dream Forever?       …

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In Stories

I Stood Up… and Walked Away

July 28, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

Surviving R. Kelly and the Children’s Theater Company After six weeks in quarantine, I had little to watch so I clicked through Netflix documentaries and hit SURVIVING R. KELLY.…

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In Stories

Entitled to What?

July 3, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

Part One: 2010 My thick, clunky cell phone read two a.m., the room so dark, without the cell, I couldn’t see a thing as I lay on the bed.…

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In Stories

A Family, Framed

June 7, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

Thank God I had called him that night. It took me a minute to realize what was happening because he kept giggling, as if it was a silly fluke…

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In Commentaries

I’m Black. My Mom Is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About George Floyd’s Killing.

June 7, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

This article originally appeared in the HUFFINGTON POST on June 3, 2020. I have been crying on and off since May 26. Between the killing of George Floyd and…

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In Stories

The First Good-bye

June 6, 2020 By Kimberly J Miller

  The world was in turmoil as I was entering school.  Kennedy had been shot a year after I was born and when I was five years old, I…

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