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crhill

KING CAROL da WRITER - Check out Longing, Lust and Love. My first published piece is in there!

About Me

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I'm a writer so watch out telling me shit cuz I WILL put it in a story (fair warning!)! Proud VONA (Voices of Our Nation) and Hedgebrook alum. teacher, emcee, producer... man! i'm busy! I also run the best girls' club in Sf: MANGO! Meditate, yoga (Vinyasa and Acro nowadays)..Lucumi practitioner (ALAFIA to all my spiritual sisters and bro's) Aspiring MacArthur fellow (who i gotta sleep with?-- uh oh. that's not very spiritual ;)) I've been BIG TIME blessed with LOTS of love in my life. Love my family (blood and otherwise) Chatty, crabby old folx and silly mischevious kids are my favs... Check out my kid and my doggie who embody all those qualities equally ;) I even got my own VIDEO VIXEN! life is good.

My Interests

Writing and reading, hot yoga, afro ___(fill in the blank) dancing, especially haitian, afro __(fill in the blank) drumming, writing fiction ; clubs, books, doggie/parenting activities, hanging out, Capoeira Angola, long walks on the beach...candle lit dinners... SYKE for those last two... HAIL to the REDSKINS!

I'd like to meet:

I wanna meet other WRITERS, ARTISTS, DANCERS and POETS! Calling all da dorky, book-worming, dog parenting, shitty diaper changing-avoiding, yoga practicing, super-hero believing, non-conforming, funny femmes and bois. Bonus points if you like the REDSKINS, mixed martial arts, ninja warrior, kids, and listening to old folx go on and on...

Music:

Spearhead, Paris, keek da sneak,Pulic Enemy, Heather hedley, Diane Reeves, The Team, E 40, Cassandra Wilson, Notorious B.I.G., Whitney, Digable Planets, Luther V., Lil Kim, Boss (remember Deeper?), Jay Z, goapele, Angie Stone, Mariah, Orishas, Chante Moore, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Jill Scott, Kim Burrell, PRINCE, Perri, Doug E Fresh and da get fresh crew, boo yaa tribe

Movies:

Daughters of the Dust, Monsoon Wedding, Once Were Warriors, Buena Vista Social Club, Superstar, Alien v. Preditor, Hellboy, Boomerang, Fearless, But i'm a cheerleader, Butch Mystique, Shrek, Robots, Any martial arts flick with the a mystical bent, any movies featuring football, dancing or teachers, V for Vendetta, Matrix, Akeelah and the Bee, Friday, Chronicles of Riddick, Notes on a Scandal, Serenity

Television:

Carnivale, Cheaters (that's right. I said Cheaters!), Monk, Medium, American Idol (shut up!), Dog Whisperer, SCI-FI channel, NFL Football, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, Intervention, Dead Zone, Charmed (leave me alone. i can't help it), Lost, Heroes,Ninja Warrior, UFC fighting

Books:

From my heros, you can tell that I've never even read a book! But if i have to put something down, here are my top 10 (more or less):The Kalakuta Republic, Chris Abani; Minion, LA Banks; Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle; American Dreams, Sapphire; So Far from God, So Close to the US, Ana Castillo; Song of Solomon, Toni; For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange; Go Tell it on the Mountain, Jimmy Balwin; Ruby Fruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown; We are the Young Magicians, Ruth Foreman; Mama Day, Gloria Naylor; Cereus Blooms at Night; Any fearless Jones mystery; Wildseed,Octavia Butler; Big Mama Stories, Shea Youngblood; Logic, Olympia Vernon; Leaving Atlanta, Tayari Jones

Heroes:

Chris Abani, Toni Morrison, Cornell West, Prince, kim (version 1), Washington Redskins, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewell Gomez, James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Ruth Foreman, Sapphire, essex hemphill, Marlon Riggs, Alvin Ailey, Cassandra Wilson, Marita Golden

My Blog

Chapter 2 (exerpt) It's Better in the Projects

  It was a Friday afternoon after school and as usual, me and Doris were playing checkers on the kitchen table like we do. ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smartta...
Posted by crhill on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:34:00 PST

Chapter 1 (exerpt) Smarts

....My job was to sweep everything: the rooms, the halls, the front porch and the back patio.  I especially did not mind doing the patio cuz that was where I could listen to Mommy and Ms. Trina, ...
Posted by crhill on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:23:00 PST