A Trip Across Time Zones: A Novella Hour 1: We've just boarded the airplane and the excitement is thick. Everyone is clean, the babies are tidy, the men have used up every last drop of perfume they own. We're going to America. Flight attendants uniforms are well pressed, hair pulled back into tight buns, makeup perfect. The couple next to me fight to buckle their seat belts and the old Indian man is smiling in the aisle despite several urges from the flight attendant to sit d

Dear friends. It’s your furry friend, Lola. As Shortie already told you, we had an ice storm here in Nashville. The first loud crash on Sunday morning had Shortie and me flying out of our beds and running into the living room. Shortie went to the back door and stared outside sleepily. What’s going on, Shortie? It’s an ice storm, Lola. I still didn’t know what that meant so I kept barking every time a tree limb crashed in the distance or when a transformer exploded. Shortie sa

There’s this event that happens in some people’s lives that’s called a mid-life crisis. Some men go out and buy fast cars, get younger wives, or hair implants. For them, a midlife crisis is usually associated with a desire for novelty, a sudden restlessness, an ego trip. For some women, a midlife crisis is more like an awakening from a deep exhausted sleep caused by life’s stresses - motherhood, careers, a million possible female ailments, compromised wishes in order to kee

Nadine, 2015 – I am sitting with a doctor at the Breast Center at St Thomas Medical Center. She's explaining a procedure that she's...

Dear friends, It’s your girl, Abbalyn. It’s been so long since I wrote to you. Shortie and I are settling in nicely now that the tall...

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Exhibit by Nadine Shillingford at Centennial Art Center (2019) I Can't Swim! A few years ago, I took a Drawing and Painting class with...