Creative Writer, Educator, Herbalist
Available on Amazon & local bookstores like RiffRaff, Books on the Square, & Heartleaf Books! It has been a busy almost 6 months since my first book baby, All Water Has Perfect Memory has been released to the world! If you're local to Rhode Island, check out the next couple of reading events I have …
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My 14th book of 2022 is Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. To check out my previous & future book posts, be sure you are following my on Ig @nadasamihwrites Every August, an alarm goes off in my head,“Time for Tuck Everlasting!” It’s a nameless urge that beckons me to re-read this book like clockwork. I …
https://youtu.be/8ggJS0p-QQc Providence residents might recall the strange case of the Providence Mall apartment back in 2003. That was when a group of artists known as Trummerkind built a secret 750-square-foot apartment in the mall where they lived in on and off for 4 years. According to the artist website, "The post-WWII term Trummerkind - German for "children …
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"If you take racism away from certain people ― I mean vitriolic racists as well as the sort of social racist ― if you take that away, they might have to face something really terrible: misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are. It’s just easier to say, ‘That one over there is the …
Continue reading "A Rhode Island Story of Racism: The Watchman Institute"
Im certainly not the first gardener who’s noted the parallels between gardening and life. Gardeners know a good harvest begins with good soil or that weeding makes way for more of what you want in your garden and less of what you don't. This summer of 2020 the parallels seem especially magnified. Even though we …
Doing anything while parenting can feel daunting and heavy at times, keeping appointments, getting ready to leave the house, making dinner, being stuck in traffic, the list goes on...add to that the current pandemic and of course the stress and anxiety go up ten fold. Writing while parenting-pandemic or not- is always a tricky balancing …
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I wonder sometimes, would I have done anything different had I known this would happen? Would I have behaved differently, planned anything? Had I known old Alumni House would be torn down, would no longer stand on the hill that it once occupied for over a century, so tall and proud, with its huge bay …
I met this girl, when I was ten years old And what I loved most she had so much soul She was old school, when I was just a shorty Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me On the regular, not a church girl she was secular Not about the money, …
The words below were spoken at the Rhode Island Poor People's campaign event: Linking Racism and Poverty on the state house lawn May 21, 2018. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ The way I see it, everyone and everything is connected. That is why it comes as no surprise to me that Lemon trees, which can grow in nearly any …
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The Shore My relationship with the shore has always been this. Nothing but sea and sky. Nothing else in my head. How far ive drifted from even this, my most basic of anchors. It’s enough even just to feel the edges now, the edges of myself seem satisfying now. Ill take it. I recognize it’s …
Nada Samih-Rotondo 