These times bring our differences to the surface and it’s easy to slide into the comfort of punching each other with ill chosen words.
Just ensure that when you climb back to the surface and those feelings subside, I hold you in the deepest waters of love.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
After an entire semester during which we battled: you versus me, debating every minute point till we were both left exhausted and empty After what
Illustration by Jill Kimura Scream: Who is: Woman by Sonia Chintha “Who is: Woman” has been a labor of resilience. This issue comes in the
I.
Minutes
into that first class –
two and a half full
decades since she’s done
anything like this –
she has to admit
there is a kind of poetry:
the manipulation of numbers,
a focused search
for the pattern
that will represent it
all.
About a month ago, I was processing my decision to take this year off with a fellow teacher friend and I said, “I love my