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tesscharlestci
Jan 147 min read
Jim Kelly Joseph, Machel Montano & Me
WWM: Wash Way Monday I’ve started both Mondays of 2025, washed away in tears. On January 6, 2025, the reality of my friend and Turks and...
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tesscharlestci
Aug 29, 20241 min read
Ise a Jab
I waited all my life to do this. When that oil hit my skin as I stood in the shuffle of black bodies making themselves blacker in...
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tesscharlestci
Mar 15, 20243 min read
Mind your manners....
It’s 5:30 in the morning of this silly daylight savings time and the only thing on my mind is something that has vexed me. For years, I’m...
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tesscharlestci
Feb 25, 20241 min read
Don't Take It Away
Some of us are geniuses to the world Some of us are simplistic And all of us give the world What it needs when it needs it Some of our...
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tesscharlestci
Jan 29, 202411 min read
Changes
Fear, routine, finances and any myriad of REAL things can hold us back from healing ourselves and living the life we deserve. So many...
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tesscharlestci
Jan 8, 20243 min read
So I'm a writer
As a child, my mommy would take me to the Victoria Library in Grand Turk every Saturday, and check out books for the week, to which we...
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