You Aren't The First to Go Through This

Interviewing 100 Black women gave me new perspective on life

My grandmother Louise and I back in the early 90s

As of this writing, I have completed 100 interviews of Black women of all ages for my upcoming book, Bloom How You Must.

(Go head and clap for your favorite writer because I am exhausted. Interviewing all of these women — affectionately dubbed the Gardeners — took two years, with the majority happening in…