Yvonne Battle-Felton
- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Birthday
- October 05
- Title
- Writer
- Company
- Yvonne Battle-Felton
- Bio
- Recently accepted to Lancaster University's Creative Writing PHD program (UK). I am doing things I never thought I would--not moving internationally--but asking people for money. My days are filled with being a mom, writing, teaching, living. By night I am my biggest fund raising advocate; completing scholarship entries to scholarships I'm not even sure are real; researching charities that fund education; and inquiring about resources and then asking for them.
40 really is liberating.
Yvonne Battle-Felton is a graduate of Johns Hopkins MA in Writing program and a full-time-part-time instructor of English and Creative Writing at CCBC, AACC and UMUC.
She resides in Maryland where she is in a perpetual state of shock over the intimacy of her personal essays and seriously considering pseudonyms.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Thing About 40
May 04, 2012 07:21PM - Learning About Learning
(Trying to find a Tutor)
May 03, 2012 12:15AM - Rediscovering my Hair Style
April 29, 2012 01:02PM - Exes and Oh's
December 29, 2011 02:01PM - Learning to Speak Me: Part II
May 19, 2011 01:37AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Congratulations! When I
read the title I expected bad
news;
nice twist.”
May 25, 2012 11:58AM - “Thank you Stathi; the
very best I could hope for:
"Your
writing will be a
fr…”
April 29, 2012 12:59PM - “There are so many
answers to this question
because, there
isn't just one
type of…”
April 29, 2012 12:57PM - “Thank you, Beth. He was
certainly...interesting,
smile
s.”
April 29, 2012 12:52PM - “Thank you, Sally Allen.
I'm glad the line makes you
think,
smiles.”
April 29, 2012 12:45PM
Yvonne Battle-Felton's Links
- New list
- Nemesis Ink
My Father Made Me Do It
I blame my parents.
Well, this I blame specifically on my father, on my mother I blame everything else—maybe not everything.
This—the way I view relationships as transient, the way I move in and out of attachments analytically, seemingly without emotion, the patterns of my relation… Read full post »
You Know What I'm Saying.
“You know what I’m saying…” she is fond of saying, but not asking.
We have been friends since the late 80s yet still, 20 years later, I don’t always know what she’s saying. But, I do know what I’m hearing. She is 36, a beautiful woman/… Read full post »
The Color of Prose
Death of Another Publication
To be honest, though I have seen at least one issue of Woman's Scope Magazine--the issue its publisher lef/… Read full post »
Hot as Hell (on the Ice): Diary of another Hockey mom
My son is an ice hockey player, well he was two seasons ago when I was certain we were staying in Baltimore and the investment in a career hockey player was a sound one. It took me two seasons to decide to stay in Maryland (at least through December). Vester is… Read full post »
On Being Single
“Yeah, now I can see why you didn’t want to try to work on your marriage.”
“So, what are you all having for dinner?” I ask.
Most evenings, Tuesday through Fridays 5:10 to 5:25 are reserved for conversations with my best friend. We talk most mornings on our re… Read full post »
Spare Change
Like thousands of others, I had grown indifferent to them.
Not to the mother, the father, the child, the sister, the brother, the young, the old, the mentally unstable, the sick, the alone. But, them, the collective totality of the nation’s homeless.
His was one of the first images… Read full post »
Top Gun
I am not a movie connoisseur.
I'm a mom, a recent grad student graduate, a writer, and a full-time employee. I try to see friends in my free time (or when I am not sleeping--which ever sounds more promising). So, I don't have a lot of time for movies.
Yet, I am … Read full post »
The Weeds in My Garden
There are things I never talk about. More precisely, there are things I never talk about with my mother. With us, the spoken word is ripe with contradiction. As a child, I was versed in the language of unconditional love and shown its clearly defined limits. We are a family of/… Read full post »
Will Write for Change
Each minute we are presented with ample opportunities to settle: we accept less than acceptable behavior in children, spouses, dates, friends, family; we justify poor service from waiters, delivery people, taxi drivers; we excuse unpleasant attitudes of teachers, coworkers, and bosses. As we ac… Read full post »
Keep Off the Grass
It’s a seldom practiced phenomenon I seem to have embraced whole heartedly: I try to spend as little time as possible doing things I absolutely do not want to do.
My mother is hosting a memorial for my grandmother though according to my 3 year old, “Gran is dead.” … Read full post »
“I’m a fucking lady,” she screamed in a voice thick with the promise of tears and violence, “Where’s he at? Where the fuck is he at?”
No one answered.
Silence is one of the first rules of avoidance isn’t it? Pretend you don’t see them and the pote… Read full post »
Convenient Inconveniences
A banana.
That’s really all my 3 year old wants.
A banana—right now.
So, we pull into the 7-11 on Lombard and Broadway in search of a banana. While I am no 7-11 Connoisseur, I have visited more than a few 7-11’s over the past 37 years, though only/… Read full post »
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