Nicknames
Several months into our relationship, my boyfriend began calling me Skillet.
Appalachian Dispatches by Tamara MC, Ph.D.
Shred an air guitar in Finland. Have an epic water fight in Thailand. Slice rival kites from the sky in India. These celebrations invite you to revel in the wacky.
10 wonderfully weird festivals to add to your bucket list this year
Shred an air guitar in Finland. Have an epic water fight in Thailand. Slice rival kites from the sky in India. These celebrations invite you to revel in the wacky.
Object-ives #16: The Inheritance I Bought
A dead woman’s milk glass collection became the family heirloom I never had
Stardust and Saltwater
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with Artist, Academic, Archivist, Activist Tamara MC, Ph.D.
The Lip Bar: Detroit’s Black-Owned Beauty Brand That Proved the Sharks Wrong
I remembered The Lip Bar from their infamous 2015 “Shark Tank” rejection—the moment Kevin O’Leary called founder Melissa Butler and her creative director “colorful cockroaches” and told them they’d never succeed.
The Sensory Chronicles of Christmas
Most people complain when stores put out Christmas decorations “too early.”
I live for it.
Mother, Daughter, Memory Keeper: Julie Brill’s Triple Role
Julie Brill’s memoir Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia
“There were hundreds crawling across the trail.” Huge, hairy animals surround hiker in Texas desert
Tamara headed to a Texan national park with the hope of spotting a black bear – but stumbled across something more ominous
My Husband Told Me He Couldn’t Be Married Anymore — So I Made A Decision I’ve Kept Secret For 12 Years
This piece was originally published in June 2024 and is being rerun now as part of HuffPost Personal’s “Best Of” series. In 2010, after a 17-year marriage, my husband asked for a divorce, saying he couldn’t be married anymore. We had two sons, 14 and 16, not quite two years apart, whom I had nursed […]