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The Diva's Digs: Family Business.....

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Online Blog of Melissa Wathington. Monday, June 10, 2013. Hey all, busy bu wonderful times lately. Very proud to announce my twin nieces graduated from high school with high honors and will be college freshman in the fall! Faith is a key component of mu life and I would not be able to exist without it. Having a deep faith in God has moved me from one goal to another, knowing I am never alone. It is my wish that all of you would one feel day feel the same faith and peace. It is life changing! I'm a single...

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.: Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color

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Sunday, June 14, 2015. Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. And from my time spent with West I was left wondering, "What is beauty? These are questions I've carried into new writings and my dissertation area. The boundary that West perceived as limiting was no fantasy either. In Portraits of the New Negro Woman,. Ultimately, the idealization of black women as mulattas, madonnas, teachers, or socialites in Harlem Renaissance literature, visual art, periodicals and aesthetic discourse establ...

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.: June 2014

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Sunday, June 29, 2014. I eventually landed on Facebook because it was requirement of a contract I signed with my second novel The Other Sister. I did have 581 readers register for the giveaway I sponsored on GoodReads. That's a lot of folks and I appreciate that so many expressed an interest. I sent those copies out this weekend and hope winners actually do read and enjoy the story. I am heartened that some who read Something About April. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Borders, Space and Liminality. A good deal o...

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.: January 2013

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013. But, writer's write,. And must continue to write through the difficulties or we're not really writers. Because we're not writing. A voice inside asked, “You've been through all of that, you're still here and you can’t do this. 8221; and then replied, “Are you kidding me? All of the sudden I felt pretty ridiculous. I thought to myself, “…of course. I can do this and I will.”. Like slapping one foot in front of the other. Are you kidding me? I can do this. View my complete profile.

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.: August 2012

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012. TWU 2012 Faulkner Seminar - Discovering a Sense of Place. One place understood helps us understand all places better.”. As we rounded the corner onto the Ole Miss University campus, I had no idea what to expect from this trip to attend The 39th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. It is only upon reflection that I realize the greatest experience the trip afforded was in allowing me the discovery of a sense of place. Faulkner writes, “To understand the world, you. Angela ...

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.: February 2013

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Sunday, February 24, 2013. Somehow December has morphed into late February and so it's not surprising that yesterday's walk yielded sightings of buds ready to burst and bushes already flowering with delicate doily-like blooms. The semester is progressing rapidly too. We are almost mid-semester, closing week six in Texas Literature, with analysis of the slice-of-life plays of Herman Foote, which followed William Humphrey's sumptuous narrative in Home from the Hill,. And Kathryn Porter's Old Order,. And, a...

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The Diva's Digs: 6/1/13 - 7/1/13

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Online Blog of Melissa Wathington. Monday, June 10, 2013. Hey all, busy bu wonderful times lately. Very proud to announce my twin nieces graduated from high school with high honors and will be college freshman in the fall! Faith is a key component of mu life and I would not be able to exist without it. Having a deep faith in God has moved me from one goal to another, knowing I am never alone. It is my wish that all of you would one feel day feel the same faith and peace. It is life changing! I'm a single...

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.: March 2014

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Sunday, March 2, 2014. Is now available in Trade Paper and has been reprinted in e-versions and is available in those editions at a lowered price for now. Right now the book is available at Amazon, but should filter outward into other markets in the next several weeks. My new website. Is up and running and Book II of the Jefferson stories, Something About April. If all the wheels turn as they should I will begin study for the PhD in English in the fall of 2014 at The University of North Texas. Erin Maris...

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.: November 2012

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Friday, November 16, 2012. Long and Winding Road. His doctrine on the importance of freedom of the press, and The Tenures of Kings and Magistrates. Questioning the rule of England's corrupt kings, as well as literary poems Comus. And the epic, Paradise Lost. In his tract the, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Finally, time constraints forced a hiatus from my creative writing. As a FYI, I've decided to take Think I'll Call it Morning. My first novel, Plenty Good Room. I'm looking forward to spending tim...