Sneak Peek  From Her new Book...

"...standing in my grandmother’s back yard I count them. I treat them like animals roaming an open field. The difference between them and the hogs my grandfather raises not obvious to me. The heat of a Georgia summer burning the back of my neck. Internal racism rears up as I absentmindedly think about how dark I’m getting.

Goldfish swim lazy and slow in the bathtubs my grandmother uses for decoration. When your husband is a plumber, you get what you can. The hogs start to snort and squeal for no reason as the wind kicks up and catches the scent of hogs and slop and flowers. It’s a poor man’s Paris and it will take years for me to realize that I was raised in a French Summer.
     
 Surrounded by fresh flowers and vegetables and cured meats and cheeses and water lilies and the quiet chirping of frogs in porcelain ponds. A simple summer away from home. A short flight from the city to the country and all that was supposed to happen was I would be gone for the summer.

​Living with my grandmother was something simple. Daringly simple. Fresh eggs and fresh chicken, smothered steak and German chocolate cake, and super sweet tea. Mint growing at the back door ..."

Dame's Bio

Dame Wilburn is a community educator with Generation With Promise in Detroit, Michigan and Chief Marketing Director for Twisted Willow Soap Company. Dame spends her free time writing poetry, singing and working on her first book. She says that she is married to the most beautiful woman in the world.
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