Archive - Sipping Lovely

A reflection on Tywanza Sanders, the youngest victim of the Charleston Church massacre that happened 10 years ago today, and why you don’t know who he…

Jun 17 •

May 2025

First, peel with your teeth

Remembering mama, releasing me

May 11 •

April 2025

What is the sound of this time in history? In over half a century, it hasn’t changed.

Apr 8 •

February 2025

Reflecting on Toni Morrison, the lie of Black History Month, and being strung out

Feb 28 •

January 2025

Smells like Zora’s Spirit

Reflecting on the mystical midwife of the black southern story, the terroir of the tortured state, and the agonizing beauty that remains

Jan 15 •

November 2024

On being over 3 million years old and giving power back to the people

Nov 4, 2024

October 2024

Blood Moons, Hurricanes & The Wondrous Nothing

What my father taught me about pissy wine and dying with dignity

Oct 14, 2024 •

September 2024

I remember the first time I shared the “Birmingham Sunday” song with the students I taught in a media class.

Sep 15, 2024 •

When smoke remembers

Today marks 61 years since Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, 14, were killed when a bomb that…

Sep 15, 2024 •

August 2024

Ethan Hawke’s film about southern goth writer, Flannery O’Connor, is a breath of dank air.

Aug 30, 2024 •

Rosso Rumblings

Thursdays sips, Montepulciano on these lips

Aug 29, 2024 •

Missing sunrise

During the spring, it was my ritual to go to the beach and watch the fish in the water.

Aug 28, 2024 •

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