Stassa Edwards lives in San Francisco with her husband and
far too many furry critters. She’s finishing her PhD in Art History, her arts
writing has appeared in The Chicago Art Journal
and The Athanor. She also blogs about lady business here and for those liberal
feminists at Ms. Magazine. If you’re so-inclined, you can follow her on Twitter.
Once I asked a friend, “Am I compulsive?” and she said “If you ask that to someone who loves you they will say you are passionate. If you ask someone who does not like you, they will say you are compulsive."
“Put yourself in a frame of mind that you can allow whatever’s going to happen, happen, and be okay with it. If you walk into a room and immediately put up walls, you’ll never find the doors.”
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC…